barley-sugar

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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.”

2. sıfat Twisted helically.

   “Chair-backs were very straight and no time was wasted on carving. This severe discipline prepared English craftsmen for their great period. After a slight relapse under Charles II into rather frivolous forms — very barley-sugar, but discreet […]”