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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fairy floss" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is another term for cotton candy or spun sugar. Example: The children eagerly lined up to buy bags of fairy floss at the carnival.
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fairy floss
noun
Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
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Photograph: The Guardian/Anna Kucera Ice-cream comes swathed in fairy floss from Gelato Messina.
It was like trying to cut fairy floss with a knife.
Cotton candy, then known as fairy floss, did make its debut at the fair.
It offers strawberries, raspberries and pink grapefruit alongside a touch of fairy floss.
The rapidly growing colonies fade from white to dark as they produce spores and are similar to cotton candy (also called candy floss or fairy floss) in texture.
Macaulay Sr kitted out a second-hand caravan and began selling fairy floss, cold cordial and helium balloons at community events.
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For the past 6 months, they have watched as the dreams built on candy floss and fairy dust have been crushed by the reality of spiraling credit card debt and crises brought on by the double gallows adjustable rate mortgages and home equity lines.
The always imaginative Ms. Melnick presents events that "may or may not have happened" in "Wanderlust, Kentucky," and Mr. Heron performs the irresistibly titled "Flossing -- in which he will apparently assume the dual personas of a box of dental floss and the tooth fairy.
I floss.
Brush and floss.
"Forget" to floss.
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