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- noun Alternative spelling of
cotton candy .
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Examples
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Whether it's a subconscious exorcism of post-war anxieties or a testament to the nitrous-oxide hyperdrive of contemporary Japan, the film makes you giddy with its cotton-candy color schemes and uncanny rumpus.
Screening With Pleasure Steve Dollar 2010
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The sultry scent of my pink-sugary, cotton-candy bod is purely provocative & pleasing.
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To make matters worse, at least from my point of view, this writer produces work that is more than mere entertainment and mental cotton-candy.
The Vanishing/Vanished Midlist? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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From the chilly stiffness of Van Wittel's view of the city, to the wispy, cotton-candy threads of Guardi, you can see a style take form, and perhaps exhaust itself.
Canaletto's paintings showed more than the tourist side of Venice 2011
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Art needs to be provocative, and big girls and boys need to grow tougher skin and realize that life isn't all cotton-candy unicorns wanting to snuggle.
Howard Hughes is Allergic to the Stupid readingthedark 2010
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To make matters worse, at least from my point of view, this writer produces work that is more than mere entertainment and mental cotton-candy.
June « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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They cannot do that by bowdlerizing classic literature, by pretending that bad things never happened and that we live in a cotton-candy world.
Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire") Valerie Strauss 2011
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The soaring songs, the judges' jabs... the cotton-candy rat's nest on Christina Aguilera's head.
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The woman responsible for that pink around town -- the White House flooded in a cotton-candy hue Thursday night, those funky bubble gum-colored shoes and gloves on the Redskins -- feels a little bad about that.
In the pink: Komen for the Cure celebrates 30 years fighting breast cancer The Reliable Source 2010
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A pet peeve: On TV, Princess Celestia is a heavenly white, but the toy is cotton-candy pink.
Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! Guys' Interest Mounts in Girly TV Show Vauhini Vara 2011
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