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单词 barley sugar
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Definition of barley sugar in English:

barley sugar

noun
mass noun
  • An amber-coloured sweet made of boiled sugar, traditionally shaped as a twisted stick.

    have a stick of barley sugar
    count noun he offered me a barley sugar
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She bit into amethysts that tasted like purple barley sugar.
    • She was a firm believer in barley sugar as a cure for travel sickness.
    • Melville Candy Company is a family-owned company that has been producing charming barley sugar lollipops in whimsical shapes and classic flavors for a quarter century.
    • To make barley sugar, white sugar is melted without water.
    • Cream teas, scones and barley sugars were procured with reckless abandon as bowls' core audience of the elderly and leisurely watched some stirring play in the Scottish Masters.
    • Furthermore, barley sugars were good for sick people as they boosted glucose levels.
    • By the late 14th century references to penides, a barley-sugar type confection, show that some knowledge of sugar boiling existed in England.
    • What do you mean you've never had a Barley Sugar before?
    • When I was a kid we used to get barley sugar pops.
    • I had just involuntarily completed a twenty-hour famine without the luxury of barley sugars and sneaky bites of food.
    • The rest of the shopping was a bit of an anti-climax after the coffee - even the stick of barley sugar I bought lost some of its significance.
    • Nearly eight years after Victory in Europe, the limit on jelly babies, pastilles, liquorice, barley sugar sticks, lemonade powder and chocolate bars was finally lifted.
    • I think it has something to do with the lovely lady who presses you to take more barley sugars and stickers, and full-cream milk instead of calci-trim girl milk.
    • Once again Viger's sculpture is made of edible material, this time barley sugar.
    • These ropelike spiral turnings were often called ‘barley twist’ for an English confection made with barley sugar in a similar shape.
adjective
  • attributive Shaped like twisted barley-sugar sticks.

    a staircase with barley-sugar banisters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The individually decorated rooms continue the house theme, stylish and slightly quirky - one has a vast lean-in wardrobe rescued from a girl's school, another boasts a great black four-poster with a barley sugar twist to the posts.
    • The bottle is tall and elegant with almost a barley-sugar, twisted moulding.
    • This situation is reversed in Nicholas Stone's porch for St Mary's church, Oxford, where barley-sugar columns, redolent of Bernini, support a traditional fan-vaulted roof.
 
 

Definition of barley sugar in US English:

barley sugar

nounˈbɑrli ˌʃʊɡərˈbärlē ˌSHo͝oɡər
  • An amber-colored candy made of boiled sugar, traditionally shaped as a twisted stick.

    have a stick of barley sugar
    count noun he offered me a barley sugar
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Once again Viger's sculpture is made of edible material, this time barley sugar.
    • Nearly eight years after Victory in Europe, the limit on jelly babies, pastilles, liquorice, barley sugar sticks, lemonade powder and chocolate bars was finally lifted.
    • When I was a kid we used to get barley sugar pops.
    • I had just involuntarily completed a twenty-hour famine without the luxury of barley sugars and sneaky bites of food.
    • Melville Candy Company is a family-owned company that has been producing charming barley sugar lollipops in whimsical shapes and classic flavors for a quarter century.
    • She was a firm believer in barley sugar as a cure for travel sickness.
    • What do you mean you've never had a Barley Sugar before?
    • By the late 14th century references to penides, a barley-sugar type confection, show that some knowledge of sugar boiling existed in England.
    • To make barley sugar, white sugar is melted without water.
    • The rest of the shopping was a bit of an anti-climax after the coffee - even the stick of barley sugar I bought lost some of its significance.
    • She bit into amethysts that tasted like purple barley sugar.
    • Furthermore, barley sugars were good for sick people as they boosted glucose levels.
    • I think it has something to do with the lovely lady who presses you to take more barley sugars and stickers, and full-cream milk instead of calci-trim girl milk.
    • Cream teas, scones and barley sugars were procured with reckless abandon as bowls' core audience of the elderly and leisurely watched some stirring play in the Scottish Masters.
    • These ropelike spiral turnings were often called ‘barley twist’ for an English confection made with barley sugar in a similar shape.
adjectiveˈbɑrli ˌʃʊɡərˈbärlē ˌSHo͝oɡər
  • attributive Shaped like twisted barley-sugar sticks.

    a staircase with barley-sugar banisters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bottle is tall and elegant with almost a barley-sugar, twisted moulding.
    • The individually decorated rooms continue the house theme, stylish and slightly quirky - one has a vast lean-in wardrobe rescued from a girl's school, another boasts a great black four-poster with a barley sugar twist to the posts.
    • This situation is reversed in Nicholas Stone's porch for St Mary's church, Oxford, where barley-sugar columns, redolent of Bernini, support a traditional fan-vaulted roof.
 
 
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