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rock candy
noun
- sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
rock candy
noun
- a hard candy, typically a long brightly-coloured peppermint-flavoured stick, sold esp in holiday resorts Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)rock
Word History and Origins
Origin of rock candy1
Example Sentences
For birthdays, she baked themed cakes from scratch using Jackson’s toys to create dinosaur cakes and rock candies for Kensington’s “Frozen” cakes.
In the 1870s, a reporter from The Sun, a New York newspaper, quoted a politician as swearing by a diet of rye whiskey cut with rock candy to stave off tuberculosis.
In “The Bitter Truth,” Evanescence continues to own the space where frosty electronic currents collide with volcanic surges of metal catharsis and coagulate into hard rock candy.
The tart fruit lingered on the palate like rock candy.
X-ray crystallography saturates proteins in a salt bath solution until they form crystals akin to rock candy.
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