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Rock candy

noun

Hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint). Synonym: rock.

Sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string.

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"Rock candy" Quotes from Famous Books

... fair young girl, in a low voice that resembled rock candy in its saccharine firmness,—"I do. He has promised to reform. Since he lost all his ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... the umbrageous bamboo platform of his small cottage. After giving me sweetened lime juice and a piece of rock candy, he entered his patio and assumed the lotus posture. In about four hours I opened my meditative eyes and saw that the moonlit figure of the yogi was still motionless. As I was sternly reminding my stomach that man does not live by bread alone, Ram ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... of tallow, wax or something like that, with a string, or wick, in the middle, just as rock candy has a string in the middle. Only you light the string in a candle, and you throw away the string in a ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope