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means A sweet treat elaborately made, or more broadly, anything skillfully assembled from many small parts — a dress, a plan, a lie — especially one that's more charming than substantial.

from From Latin conficere, 'to put together, prepare' — con- ('together') plus facere ('to make'). The same root gives us 'confect,' 'comfit,' and even 'fact.' For centuries 'confection' simply meant any compounded mixture, especially medicinal ones apothecaries sweetened to make the medicine go down. Sugar eventually won the branding war, and the word drifted from the pharmacy to the pastry case — though it kept its knack for describing anything cleverly assembled to be more delightful than deep.