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cotton candy

noun

  1. a fluffy, sweet confection whipped from spun sugar and gathered or wound around a stick or cone-shaped paper core.


cotton candy

noun

  1. a very light fluffy confection made from coloured spun sugar, usually held on a stick Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)candyfloss Austral namefairyfloss
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cotton candy1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
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Example Sentences

So it might come as a surprise then, that what Americans know today as cotton candy was indeed created by a dentist.

I’m pretty confident that if you ask any modern dentist today, they’d tell you that cotton candy isn’t all that great for your teeth.

In the distance, the Virginia mainland stayed low to the ground, a dark green strip underlining a pale lapis blue sky, empty except for a few shreds of cotton candy clouds.

Maybe not always the cotton candy ones, but stories that need to be told that maybe haven’t been heard.

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The Capital Weather Gang has been retweeting photos of the pink and purple cotton candy sunrise Wednesday morning.

There was even a cotton candy machine that children gather around.

By then, spectators were heading for the cotton-candy stand, applauding the ride.

Sometimes it's cotton-candy-content, but sometimes it's real meat.

Reading it is the literary equivalent of having cotton candy turn to ashes in your mouth.

Chocolate melts, cotton candy disintegrates, graham-cracker walls separate, and gingerbread roofs eventually cave in.

I feel a funny feeling in my stomach, like maybe it is full of supersuds or something, and my mouth is dry like cotton candy.

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