a confection made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.
a person or thing that is pleasing.
excessively sweet; saccharine.
sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
pertaining to or characteristic of someone or something that is pleasing.
Also called: rock candy. large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
confectionery; sweets
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Millennial and Generation X households with children are the biggest fans of Valentine’s sugar candy, according to IRI, a global market research firm.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy," she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2020
“It’s like eating sugar candy — and about as exciting.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2014
Words suddenly enter, like sugar, candy, crimson, turban, and tulip, which have Arabic or Persian roots.
From National Geographic
Madam’s list of required delicacies was endless: gingerbread, pies of brandied peaches and preserved cherries and mincemeat, macaroons, blancmange, Jordan almonds, sugar candy, as many kinds of cake as there were fingers on both hands.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Scriptwriters Annette Wademant and Jean Aurel have turned out an original screenplay with a plot that is no more distinctive than a stick, but they have given it a frothy, spicy, sugar-candy coating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both the Russian and the American economies are, avowedly and deliberately, carrot-and-stick economies; the British is rapidly becoming a sugar-candy economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm a brave and dashing Porcupine— Strong, elegant, and dandy; And you a Hedgehog, bright as wine, And sweet as sugar-candy.
From The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Spielmann, Mabel Henriette
There was the Desert Fairy, guarded by two lions which the wandering queen endeavored to appease with "a cake made of millet, sugar-candy, and crocodile's eggs."
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary
Lemon marmalade may be done in the same way, only with a much greater quantity of sugar, or sugar mixed with sugar-candy.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
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