spun sugar

English

Noun

spun sugar (uncountable)

1. Hardened sugar syrup spun into long filaments, usually to then make cotton candy.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:

     Without one of the ordinary inducements which light up the saloon, and cover the supper-table with spun-sugar temples...and in giving parties, she only fulfilled the destiny attached to such possessions.

Translations

hardened sugar syrup in filaments

• Italian: zucchero filato m