spun sugar en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.
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.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:
Translations (1)
it zucchero filato (hardened sugar syrup in filaments)