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spun sugar

spun sugar noun: hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.

Noun

spun sugar (uncountable)

  1. Hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.
    • 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.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66

Questions about spun sugar

What does spun sugar mean?
Spun sugar means hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.
What part of speech is spun sugar?
Spun sugar is a noun.

Words near spun sugar in the dictionary

  1. spun one's wheels
  2. spun out
  3. spun plates
  4. spun round
  5. spun someone's wheels
  6. spun sugar
  7. spun up
  8. spunbond
  9. spunbonded
  10. spunbonding
  11. spunbonds

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