candy floss
AmericanEtymology
Origin of candy floss
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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The company is known for its customer service and family-friendly atmosphere, where ladies can receive manicures and kids are treated to candy floss while waiting for a table.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
To the west, the clouds unfurled like strawberry-pink candy floss.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024
A former columnist who had been fired from the Times of London for fabricating journalism, Johnson employed politics that were not so much spin as spun: an endless candy floss of gleeful nothingness.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
A court jester appeared in an amorphous white bib featuring playing card motifs, as a model in pigtails and a baby pink textured gown with capped sleeves offered out candy floss.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2022
Dean Moran, opposite, eyes clenched, lips valving open as a cobra slithers out, a shiny cobra of half-digested toffee apple, candy floss, and three of Fryer Tuck's All-American Taste-Tastic Hot Dogs, highly recommended, writhing longer.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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