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candy cane

[ kan-dee keyn ]

noun

  1. a stick of hard candy with a curve at one end, usually peppermint-flavored with red and white stripes.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of candy cane1

First recorded in 1865–70

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Example Sentences

Kids pressed around one of the plane’s wings, smiling and eager to collect the candy canes he handed out from a red satchel.

However, many of the colors that make up candy canes, sugar cookies and even cranberry sauce and roast ham, are synthetic.

Once when Willa was three, a few months after Christmas, she was eating a piece of candy cane.

“Katy has a status,” he says, pointing to a painting of Perry wielding a candy-cane scepter.

Across the window, hung from the gas jet by ribbons, was a huge candy cane.

And Philip he seed me behind the post and give me as much candy cane as I could bite off not to tell nobody what she said to him.

As he pulled off his hat he heard a shout and saw the boys all scrambling for the broken end of the candy cane.

Immediately John Dough recovered his wits and aimed a strong blow with the candy cane at the wild people of the forest.

He wore a silk hat and carried a candy cane prettily striped with red and yellow.

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