barley-sugar

NOUN
  1. a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar

How To Use barley-sugar In A Sentence

  • A slant of sun on large clean table, dancing barley-sugar splashes through the marmalade jar.
  • Bernini used Borromini when it suited him, and very probably exploited him through a number of papal commissions, including the St Peter's baldacchino, the mighty, barley-sugar-columned canopy that sits theatrically under Michelangelo's dome. Borromini: the first architect
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