From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbarley sugarˈbarley ˌsugar noun [countable, uncountable] British English DFFa hard sweet made of boiled sugar
Examples from the Corpus
barley sugar• Dad got me to read aloud to him and then offered me a barley sugar.• Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar.• He had eaten an assortment of sweets during the afternoon followed by an ice-cream and was now into barley sugar again.• The castle looks as if it is twirled out of barley sugar.• He smelt of outdoors and of secret barley sugar.• A fine oak staircase with barley sugar bannisters leads out of the stone flagged hall and the south-east facing sitting-room is panelled.• The assistants know what they are doing, and never try to sell you barley sugar on the way out. 