Definitions for barley-sugar

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barley-sugar barley sugar

Barley-Sugar is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 780 anagrams from letters in barley-sugar (-aabeglrrsuy).

Definitions for barley-sugar

noun

1. a brittle, amber-colored, transparent candy, formerly boiled in a decoction of barley, consisting of sugar, cream of tartar, and orange or lemon juice, usually twisted into strips or molded into a variety of shapes.

Origin of barley-sugar

First recorded in 1705-15

Examples for barley-sugar

That's amber, just like barley sugar, only not so nice; people make necklaces of it.

Think what fun to sit and break off twigs of barley sugar, candied cherries, and leaves that tasted like peppermint and sassafras!

Taking out a lump of barley sugar candy he had brought for her he laid it down beside her and hurried away.

Stone quarries above ground as well as below, the old Flemish façades crumbled like sheets of barley sugar.

An old woman with much vigor of speech offered them barley sugar for sale.

With my three sous, I could have given each of them a stick of barley sugar, but that is hardly refreshing.

It has a fine character, and the "barley sugar" pattern is deeply turned.

Fine character deep-turning "barley sugar" pattern with only one gate.