Wiktionary
n. (senseid en sweet) (context UK NZ English) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
Usage examples of "candy floss".
He looked down at himself, at the red life that was his but also Teresas and Debras racing out of him and embracing the ground, turning the snow pink as candy floss at his feet.
The cooks had surpassed themselves with sweet cakes, and with a mass of pink, green, and blue candy floss, a substance as light as a tangle of hair, which melted on the tongue with a delicious caramel flavor.
The little girls were especially immaculate in pink and white cotton kimonos tied with fluffy sashes like swatches of candy floss.
After a great deal of deliberation I spent five of my ill-gotten cents on a large paper comet of pink candy floss, a delicacy I had never seen before.