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Meanings of spun sugar in English

Portuguese
algodão doce
Catalan
barba de sucre

A candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature.

algodão doce
Usage of spun sugar in English
1
They were in a boudoir now, all pink fluff and spun sugar.
Second Foundation
2
He wants to touch her fragile blond hair, brittle like spun sugar.
Chosen: a novel
3
For the sweet, each guest was served a skull of spun sugar.
A Dance with Dragons
4
It's a cake, a chocolate cake, with a ribbon of spun sugar that reads
Once upon a time in America
5
The clouds were streaked across the sky like spun sugar.
Before I fall
6
Fruit tarts and spun sugar animals crowded another table.
Casket of Souls
7
Each dart was pointed at one end and had walls as thin as spun sugar.
Patient Zero
8
It was like a thin pane of spun sugar.
Obsidian Butterfly
9
It sits in the palm of the hand as lightly as a confection of spun sugar.
The Irish Times
10
Both she and the words are as sweet as spun sugar and as wholesome as currant cake.
The Irish Times
11
But then there it was: roasted peanuts and hot spun sugar, the summery scents of the fairground.
A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
12
Like it was made of spun sugar.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
13
The refreshment table was decorated with pyramids of quartered oranges in nets of spun sugar and large frosted cakes.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
14
We surround it with dark chocolate crumbs and top it with spun sugar, then set it on fire with dark rum.
Reuters
15
After a long time, he laid his slide rule on the table as delicately as if it were made of spun sugar.
Cities in Flight
16
As the wand is passed through the gossamer cloud of spun sugar, it holds onto more and more of the pink strands.
Reuters
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