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barley sugar
noun
- a brittle, amber-colored, transparent candy, formerly boiled in a decoction of barley, consisting of sugar, cream of tartar, and orange or lemon juice, usually twisted into strips or molded into a variety of shapes.
barley sugar
noun
- a brittle clear amber-coloured sweet made by boiling sugar, originally with a barley extract
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Word History and Origins
Origin of barley sugar1
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Example Sentences
That was the barley-sugar skylight, and I shall certainly be boiled!
He is snow-white outside, with eyes of red barley sugar; see his ears, and his little snubby tail!
Then she went to bed, and dreamed she was Judy, and was beating Punch with a stick of Barley-sugar.
The manufacture of barley-sugar is a familiar example of crystallization.
So I planted a bull's-eye tree, and a barley-sugar-cane grove, and one or two other things, and made a jolly ripping place of it.
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