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sugar-candy|ˌʃʊgəˈkændɪ|
[ad. F. sucre candi (in which candi was at an early date apprehended as a pa. pple.; cf. 15th c. chucre candit, and It. zucchero candito), corresp. to Pr. sucre cande, Sp. azucar candi, Pg. assucar candi, MLG. suckercandi (also -ît), early mod.Du. suycker candye (Du. kandij-suiker), G. zuckerkand (16th c.), med.L. succar-candi; repr. Arab. sukkar sugar + qandī of sugar, f. qand sugar, a. Pers. kand = Skr. khaṇḍa sugar in pieces (cf. khaṇḍa śarkarā candied sugar), orig. piece, fragment, f. root khaṇḍ to break.]
1. Sugar clarified and crystallized by slow evaporation.
brown (or † red) sugar-candy: that obtained at the first crystallization. white sugar-candy: that obtained by reboiling the former and allowing it to crystallize.
[1390Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 19 Pro vj lb. sucri candy.] 1392Ibid. 219 Pro diversis speciebus..emptis..viz. croco,..gariofilis, sugre candy, sugre caffetin. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 7 With sugur candy, thou may hit dowce. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 757 Whot appuls & peres with sugre Candy. [1510tr. Rentale Dunkeld. (S.H.S.) 213 Zucro candey.] 1584Cogan Haven Health cxxix. (1636) 128 White sugar is not so good for flegme, as that which is called Sugar Candie. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 180 One poore peny-worth of Sugar-candie to make thee long-winded. 1610Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 191 Halfe a pound of brown suger candie, xijd. 1611Ibid. 196 White suger candie. 1620Venner Via Recta vi. 102 Red Sugar-Candy, which is only good in glysters. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 27 Diaphanous like Sugar-Candy. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 8, I thought..his voice as sweet as sugar-candy. 1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 115 Thus we see sugar-candy crystallized upon strings, and verdigris upon sticks. 1864Garrod Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 316 Cane sugar..crystallized from a strong solution with the addition of spirit..forms oblique four-sided prisms, sugar candy.
2. fig. Something sweet, pleasant, or delicious.
1591Greene Farew. Follie Wks. (Grosart) IX. 294 Sugar candie she is, as I gesse, fro the waist to the kneestead. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. Pref. ⁋8 In verse is both goodnesse and sweetnesse, Rubarb and Sugercandie, the pleasaunt and the profitable. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 254 O the sugarcandy of the delicate bag pipe there. 1817Byron Beppo lxxx, Oh, for old Saturn's reign of sugar-candy! 1889Gretton Memory's Harkback 94 Lord John Russell, to whom a rap at the University was always sugar-candy.
b. attrib. or as adj. Sugared, honeyed, deliciously sweet.
1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 91 The goodliest suugercandye style That ever cam neere me a mile. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. iv. 1377 Give him some sugar candy tearms. 1602Middleton Blurt, Master-Constable v. ii, No, no, my sugar-candy mistress, your goodman is not here. 1903Ld. R. Gower Rec. & Rem. 149 The party in that sugar-candy, cake-like house of wits was a small one. 1909Daily Chron. 20 Sept. 4/6 Sugar-candy hymns.
3. attrib., as sugar-candy powder, sugar-candy stick; also applied locally to crystallized geological formations (see quots. 1778, 1876).
1683Tryon Way to Health xv. (1697) 368 Take..White-Sugar candy-powder one Dram and half. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 77 A mere Sugar-candy Stick, in Comparison to his Cat of Nine-Tails. 1778W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 92 A white candied, or pellucid Crystal, commonly termed a White Sugar Candy (Spar) Crystal. 1876Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales 204 The beds at Portland and Tisbury contain beautiful yellow crystals of sulphate of barytes (sugar candy stone).
Hence sugar-ˈcandyish a., resembling sugar-candy.
1874Disraeli Let. Aug. in Lett. to Lady Bradford (1929) I. vii. 135 Her manners not only sugary but sugar-candyish. 1927J. Masefield Midnight Folk 172 A bowl of raspberries and cream with blobs of sugar-candyish brown sugar. |