sugar candy

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sugar candy
noun fuller term for candy.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
candy/ˈkandi/
noun (pl. candies) (also sugar candy)
  • 1 N. Amer. sweets; confectionery.
  • 2 chiefly Brit. sugar crystallized by repeated boiling and slow evaporation.
verb (candies, candying, candied) (often as adj. candied) preserve (fruit) by coating and impregnating it with a sugar syrup.
– origin C17 (as v.): as n. from ME sugar-candy, from Fr. sucre candi ‘crystallized sugar’, from Arab. sukkar ‘sugar’ + ḳandī ‘candied’.
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