spun sugar

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English

Noun

spun sugar (uncountable)

Hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 65–66:
  Without one of the ordinary inducements which light up the saloon, and cover the supper-table with spun-sugar temples...and in giving parties, she only fulfilled the destiny attached to such possessions.

Translations

hardened sugar syrup in filaments

Italian: zucchero filato m

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