#barleysugar

WORD OF THE DAY Wednesday, March 2, 2022 OED Word of the Day: barley sugar, n. An amber-coloured hard sweet made of boiled sugar, often flavoured with an extract of barley, and traditionally shaped into twisted sticks or oblong drops.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Pomfret cakes, Cola bottles, humbugs and barley sugars (but only in mum's handbag on long journeys, stop you getting carsick)." - 2001, S. Armitage, Little Green Man (2002) xxvii. 178

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