Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oil-drillers' name for a sandstone of saccharoidal or sugary texture.
- noun See the extract.
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Examples
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The crime scene is a far cry from the sugar-sand beaches and luxurious resorts of Longboat Key, 12 miles away, where police said that Cooper and Kouzaris had been staying.
Two Britons shot dead during Florida holiday in notorious gang area 2011
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When I drove back to New Orleans Friday, I still had hope: the shore was still intact, an endless stretch of perfect sugar-sand beach was still unstained.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss 2010
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When I drove back to New Orleans Friday, I still had hope: the shore was still intact, an endless stretch of perfect sugar-sand beach was still unstained.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sadness and Seafood: New Orleans Recounts the Loss 2010
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That's blue for the sea and sky, and white for the sugar-sand beach.
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Friends had invited Mr. Williams to spend spring break on the white sugar-sand beach in Cancun, Mexico.
Party Animals 2008
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Or you may ice it; putting on the nonpareils or sugar-sand in such a manner as to mark out the cake in triangular divisions.
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie Eliza Leslie 1822
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You may flower it with coloured sugar-sand or nonparels; but a newer and more elegant mode is to decorate it with, devices and borders in white sugar; they can be procured at the confectioners, and look extremely well on icing that has been tinted with pink by the addition of a little cochineal.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822
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Make them all of a regular and handsome form, and touch the top of each with a spot of red sugar-sand.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822
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Spread it evenly with a broad knife, over the top of each queen-cake, ornamenting them, (while the icing is quite wet) with red and green nonpareils, or fine sugar-sand, dropped on, carefully, with the thumb and finger.
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie Eliza Leslie 1822
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While the last icing is wet, ornament it with coloured sugar-sand or nonpareils.
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie Eliza Leslie 1822
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