The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confectioners' sugar \Con*fec"tion*ers' sug`ar\ A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.
Wiktionary
alt. (context Eastern US English) powdered sugar. n. (context Eastern US English) powdered sugar.
Usage examples of "confectioners' sugar".
I beat confectioners' sugar into butter, added a hint of vanilla, and mixed in two kinds of flour sifted with a tad of leavening.
After another quick couple of kisses, very powdery and rather like kissing a person made of pure white confectioners' sugar, I came around in front of her again.
Hard sauce should be made with confectioners' sugar - but Aunt Carole had taught me how to crush and crush and keep on crushing granulated sugar, using a big spoon and a bowl, to achieve a fair imitation of powdered sugar.
I spoke wonderingly to my lover of things I had never seen but only imagined, a bright blue sea rippling in sunshine where on an extraordinary wide, white beach of a kind unknown in my experience, sand fine as confectioners' sugar, I ran splashing in the warm surf and cut my foot on a sea-shell of remarkable coral-pinkness and my mother who'd been running just behind me lifted me in her arms and kissed me as I cried more in surprise than in pain.
Fresh snow as fine and dry as confectioners' sugar puffed up around him.
The yellow dust clung to him, as thick as the confectioners' sugar on a powdered donut, gray.
Weaver made German pancakes with lemon juice and confectioners' sugar for breakfast.
A thin layer of white substance like confectioners' sugar, barely covered the bottom of the quarter-size silver box.
Bob had a piece of white confectioners' sugar icing clinging to his lip.