barley-sugar
Noun
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Noun
barley-sugar
- attributive form of barley sugar#English|barley sugar
barley-sugar
- very sweet; harmless.
- c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife
- I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!
- 1824, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 126
- In the apartment of the Abate a few pictures remain, but none of first order : one or two Carlo Dolces served to strengthen our opinion of his being one of the most barley-sugar painters of the Italian schools.
- 1851, The New monthly belle assemblée, page 292
- Well, the little dog barked on furiously, that is for a barley-sugar dog; and, after rolling themselves in the grass to get rid of the load of jam and cream on their clothes, they managed to get up and run on.
- c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife
- twisted helically.
- 1963, Radio Astronomy
- Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith.
- 1988, Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art and Architecture, Univ of California Press ISBN 9780520074125, page 95
- The barley-sugar columns, carved in spiral channels with alternating bands of vine ornament, exist to this day though moved from their original site.
- 2008, John Mortimer, Summer's Lease, Penguin UK ISBN 9780141920795
- So they left the remains of Fosdyke and walked across the road and through the old church, restored in the eighteenth century, which had barley-sugar pillars and theatrical red curtains backlit by the sun.
- 2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN 9781780882277
- Kate's living room was simply furnished with a large damask-covered sofa that had seen better days, a folding table with barley sugar legs and a couple of upright chairs.
- 1963, Radio Astronomy
- (twisted helically) Solomonic
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