Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
barley-sugar .
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Examples
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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
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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
hernesheir commented on the word barley-candy
barley-sugar
November 25, 2010