spun sugar
English
Noun
spun sugar (uncountable)
- Hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, pages 65-66:
- Without one of the ordinary inducements which light up the saloon, and cover the supper-table with spun-sugar temples...and in giving parties, she only fulfilled the destiny attached to such possessions.
Translations
hardened sugar syrup in filaments
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