barley-sugar

Definitions

1. 1

   Very sweet-natured or saccharine

   Very sweet-natured or saccharine; harmless.

   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Twisted helically.

   • 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.
   • The barley-sugar columns, carved in spiral channels with alternating bands of vine ornament, exist to this day though moved from their original site.

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