barley sugar in English
noun
1
an amber-colored candy made of boiled sugar, traditionally shaped as a twisted stick.
Nearly eight years after Victory in Europe, the limit on jelly babies, pastilles, liquorice, barley sugar sticks, lemonade powder and chocolate bars was finally lifted.
adjective
1
shaped like twisted barley-sugar sticks.
The bottle is tall and elegant with almost a barley-sugar , twisted moulding.
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1. 12 He smelt of outdoors and of secret barley sugar.
2. 24 Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar.
3. A slant of sun on large clean table, dancing barley-sugar splashes through the marmalade jar.
4. 'and vinegar that makes them sour -- and camomile that makes them bitter -- and -- and barley- sugar and such things that make children sweet- tempered.