fairy floss
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fairy floss
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From fairy + floss. First attested in the 1850s.
noun fairyfloss
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Synonym of cotton candy.
Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
Similar: cotton candy
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