lemon plait

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Noun

lemon plait (uncountable)

  1. Lemon-flavoured sugar confection (candy, sweets, similar to barley sugar) in a plaited form.
    • 1913, Katharine Tynan, Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences, page 51:
      I sucked "lemon plait" and I read and would not have changed places with an angel.
    • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
      she sold lemon platt.
      Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback), page 19
    • 1936, Francis Hackett, The Green Lion, page 241:
      Jerry went for a thing called "lemon plait." He watched the dwindling supply with anguish, not strong enough to reach the counter in the fetid excitement of hungry boys. He had almost no pocket money, and chocolate was beyond him.
    • 1957, Padraic Colum, The Flying Swans, page 141:
      grander sugar stick such as Lemon Plait, that was two pieces plaited together and that had a nice sourish taste.
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