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icing sugar

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noun

  1. US term: confectioners' sugar.  a very finely ground sugar used for icings, confections, etc

"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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A bag of icing sugar was then thrown into the man's car before the other vehicle was driven off.

From BBC May 13, 2025

One commentator said now that the "do-gooder" pandoro with pink icing sugar had been exposed as junk, Italians were wondering where that left "the princess of influencers as well as queen of social media".

From BBC Dec. 19, 2023

The icing sugar available in the U.K. does not have corn starch in it and because of that, it creates a significantly stronger icing that dries rock hard.

From Salon Feb. 3, 2023

As for how it compares to other types of sugar, it's not as fine as powdered sugar aka icing sugar aka confectioners' sugar.

From Salon Jan. 14, 2022

It was bell-bright and as sweet as icing sugar.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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