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candy cane
[ kan-dee keyn ]
noun
- a stick of hard candy with a curve at one end, usually peppermint-flavored with red and white stripes.
Word History and Origins
Origin of candy cane1
Example Sentences
Kids pressed around one of the plane’s wings, smiling and eager to collect the candy canes he handed out from a red satchel.
However, many of the colors that make up candy canes, sugar cookies and even cranberry sauce and roast ham, are synthetic.
Once when Willa was three, a few months after Christmas, she was eating a piece of candy cane.
“Katy has a status,” he says, pointing to a painting of Perry wielding a candy-cane scepter.
Across the window, hung from the gas jet by ribbons, was a huge candy cane.
And Philip he seed me behind the post and give me as much candy cane as I could bite off not to tell nobody what she said to him.
As he pulled off his hat he heard a shout and saw the boys all scrambling for the broken end of the candy cane.
Immediately John Dough recovered his wits and aimed a strong blow with the candy cane at the wild people of the forest.
He wore a silk hat and carried a candy cane prettily striped with red and yellow.
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