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Barley-sugar   /bˈɑrli-ʃˈʊgər/   Listen
Barley-sugar

noun
1.
A brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar.  Synonym: barley candy.





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"Barley-sugar" Quotes from Famous Books



... said to the child, to whom he had sacrificed barley-sugar (it had no attraction for his own lips, yet in these days there was always some of it about), he had confided to the small Sidney that if he would wait a little he should be intrusted with something nice to take down to his parent. Sidney had absorbing occupation and, while Peter copied off ...
— Sir Dominick Ferrand • Henry James


Words linked to "Barley-sugar" :   barley candy, hard candy


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