fairy floss

See also: fairyfloss

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From fairy +‎ floss.

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fairy floss (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
    • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
      Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
    • 2009, Rex Ellis, Chapter 3: Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow, page 25:
      The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.
    • 2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary‎[1], page 282:
      Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.
    • 2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles‎[2], page 22:
      Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.

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