spun sugar
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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But look closer, and you might marvel that these floral arrangements, as spindly as spun sugar, are fashioned from glass.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
I read about choux pastry, wet caramel, and how to wrap your pastry tower with spun sugar.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
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
Her hair collected fine as spun sugar in the corners of the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2016
She had made a vanilla cream cake with custard and spun sugar.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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