单词 | barley sugar |
释义 | barley sugar From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Food, dishbarley sugarˈbarley ˌsugar noun [countable, uncountable] British EnglishDFFa hard sweet made of boiled sugarExamples from the Corpusbarley sugar• Dad got me to read aloud to him and then offered me a barley sugar.• Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar.• He had eaten an assortment of sweets during the afternoon followed by an ice-cream and was now into barley sugar again.• The castle looks as if it is twirled out of barley sugar.• He smelt of outdoors and of secret barley sugar.• A fine oak staircase with barley sugar bannisters leads out of the stone flagged hall and the south-east facing sitting-room is panelled.• The assistants know what they are doing, and never try to sell you barley sugar on the way out. |
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