fairy floss
(Australia) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
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(Australia) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
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