spun sugar

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noun

a confection resembling fluff or floss, made from hot boiled sugar that has threaded, used as a garnish, frosting, or in making cotton candy.

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Historical Examples of spun sugar

Not like Maria, who is like a fragile, fair, spun-sugar angel.
Each Man Kills
Victoria Glad
Then decorate it with some spun-sugar pinnacles and some flags of silver paper, and the confiseur stood confessed.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876
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British Dictionary definitions for spun sugar

spun sugar

noun

US another term for candyfloss

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