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Spun sugar   /spən ʃˈʊgər/   Listen
Spun sugar

noun
1.
A candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature.  Synonyms: candyfloss, cotton candy.






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"Spun sugar" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning, Francoise,' and I touch your arm before you give it to her." No sooner had we arrived in my aunt's dark hall than we saw in the gloom, beneath the frills of a snowy cap as stiff and fragile as if it had been made of spun sugar, the concentric waves of a smile of anticipatory gratitude. It was Francoise, motionless and erect, framed in the small doorway of the corridor like the statue of a saint in its niche. When we had grown more accustomed to ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust



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