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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
icing sugar
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beat in the icing sugar to make a stiff paste.
▪ Decorate with plain icing sugar mixed with water, or sprinkle ground ginger on top.
▪ Dust with icing sugar and cinnamon and serve at once.
▪ For the filling, beat the butter with the icing sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in the chocolate liqueur.
▪ Leave the cookies to cool and harden on a wire rack. 5 Mix the icing sugar with two tablespoons of water.
▪ On a surface lightly coated with icing sugar, shape chocolate mixture into finger-sized logs.
▪ Sprinkle with icing sugar on top.
▪ Try salt, ginger, icing sugar, chocolate or coffee.
Wiktionary
icing sugar

n. (context British Canada Australia NZ English) powdered sugar.

WordNet
icing sugar

n. finely powdered sugar used to make icing

Usage examples of "icing sugar".

Duff, a small, grizzled Scot with a very long nose, sparse jowls, and a fine sprout of graying whiskers that made him look as though he'd been thickly dusted in icing sugar, leaped nimbly up onto the quay and proceeded to clasp Roger in a manly em brace, punctuated by fierce thumpings on the back and ejaculations of amaze ment, all heartily returned by Roger.

To the right, as I looked, the gleaming walls of the crevasse, their top ten feet glittering with a beaded crystalline substance like icing sugar, and here not more than seven or eight feet apart, stretched down into the illimitable darkness, curving away from one another to form an immense cavern the size of which I couldn't even begin to guess at.

She chewed with unbridled pleasure, and the fine white icing sugar dusted her lips.

An empty space in the middle of the room where the dust was thick as icing sugar gave no indication of what the spectators might once have watched.

He'd reply, 'That icing sugar and cream on top, that good for you, too?

Sneezing icing sugar and dribbling foot powder, he was ushered into private galleries, where he ran his bloodshot eye over nervously proffered trays of ivory miniatures.