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powdered_sugar

powdered sugar

English

Noun

powdered sugar ‎(uncountable)

(Western US) Very finely ground sugar to which cornstarch is added to prevent lumping, mostly used in icings and confections to produce a smooth texture.

Synonyms

icing sugar (Canada, UK)
confectioners' sugar or confectioners sugar (Eastern US)

Translations

very finely ground sugar used in icings, etc

Bulgarian:
Catalan:
Chinese:

Cantonese: 糖霜 ‎(tong⁴ soeng¹)

Mandarin: 糖粉 (zh) ‎(tángfěn)
Czech: práškový cukr, cukr moučka m
Danish: flormelis (da)
Dutch: poedersuiker (nl) m
Esperanto: glazursukero
Faroese: florsukur n
Finnish: tomusokeri (fi)
French: sucre glace (fr) m, sucre à glacer (fr) m (Canada), sucre en poudre m (Canada, colloquial), sucre impalpable (fr) m (Belgium)
Galician: azucre glas (gl) m

Georgian:
German: Puderzucker (de) m, Staubzucker (de) m (Austria)
Hungarian: porcukor (hu)
Italian: zucchero a velo m
Japanese: 粉砂糖 ‎(こなざとう, konazatō)
Maori: puehu huka
Norwegian: melis
Polish: cukier puder (pl) m
Portuguese: açúcar de confeiteiro m
Romanian: zahăr pudră n
Russian: са́харная пу́дра (ru) f ‎(sáxarnaja púdra)
Slovak: práškový cukr m
Spanish: azúcar flor (es), azúcar glas (es) m
Swedish: florsocker (sv) n
Turkish: pudra şekeri

References

Irma Starkloff Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking (1975, Bobbs-Merrill)