spun sugar
Americannoun
noun
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The menu does not mention these aren’t pork cracklins but fried chicken skin: six pieces, each the size of a Frito, but as flat and fragile as spun sugar.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Chenoweth is all spun sugar and sunshine, an approach she’s perfected over a long career.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018
Whipple: While winding layers of spun sugar onto a cardboard holder, he realized that cotton candy was remarkably similar to TP, though slightly less digestible.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2017
Only a few in the front row actually got to share in that moment, spun sugar dissolving upon their tongues.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2016
There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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