Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as barley-sugar.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word barley-candy.

Examples

  • You can see that a hundred dollars would have gone a good way in barley-candy and blood-alleys, -- which last are things unknown, perhaps, to Young America to-day.

    How to Do It Edward Everett Hale 1865

  • The front shop-window was especially interesting to us children, for there were in it a few glass jars containing sticks of striped barley-candy, and red and white peppermint-drops, and that delectable achievement of the ancient confectioner's art, the "Salem gibraltar."

    A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.