icing sugar

noun

Powdered sugar.

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confectioners' sugar
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Meanings

nounicing sugar (countable and uncountable, plural icing sugars)

plural icing sugars

  1. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableuncountablePowdered sugar.
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    The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

    1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

    Synonyms: confectioners' sugar

Synonyms & antonyms

nounPowdered sugar.

Similar
confectioners' sugar
Also see
powdered sugar
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APA

icing sugar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/icing%20sugar

MLA

“icing sugar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/icing%20sugar. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “icing sugar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/icing%20sugar.

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