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barley-sugar

n. a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar [syn: barley candy]

Usage examples of "barley-sugar".

And with the saff oil and letter to Chivalry, I defiantly sent barley-sugar sticks, with the request that he ration them out so that no one suffered from bellyaches.

Zellaby let him go on playing with it for a bit, and then produced a piece of barley-sugar, and traded it for the return of his box, still unopened.

Zellaby thereupon put another piece of barley-sugar in the box, closed it, and presently handed it to him again.

Gavril glanced up and saw one of the tall barley-sugar chimney stacks wavering, starting to topple down above the boy's head.

And they did seem to like it very much, almost as much as the lumps of barley-sugar Mama sometimes took them, as a treat.

By noon bell, she'd acquired a grand total of three pennies, a marble dropped in by a solemn-faced child, a little bag of barley-sugar candy added by a young girl, a bit of yellow ribbon, and at least a dozen pins.