1Sugar or syrup heated until it turns brown, used as a flavouring or colouring for food or drink.

1. 1.1 The light brown colour of caramel.
   the liquid turns a pale caramel

   as modifier a caramel sweater

   Example sentencesExamples

   • For blondes choose darker caramels, honey and warm beige.
   • I deviated from my usual brand of wax last night, noting with interest the translucent turquoise colour rather than the usual caramel.
   • Those who choose black or tortoise for the main pair often opt for colours like red or caramel for their second pair.
   • Sally deduced that the colours Jane should be wearing were light colours with some warmth such as peach, beige, caramel, cinnamon, apricot and a lighter version of warmer colours such as jade, lilac and blue.
   • She had pale skin with caramel colored hair, rosy cheeks, hazel eyes, and pale pink lips.
   • Corduroys come in shades of rust, sand, bottle-green, caramel and plum.
   • From herein, continue to stir every 30 seconds or so, for the next 10 minutes, until all of the fruit is sticky with a golden brown caramel colour.
   • It comes in different eye-catching colors like, beige, black, caramel, charcoal, blue, gray, green, red, taupe, wine, jade and tan.
   • The featured style is Elyot and comes in purple, green, caramel, black and white!
   • His skin was just a shade lighter than caramel, and his eyes were even lighter, the color of weak tea with too much honey.
   • The flooring is either a creamy tan or a darker caramel, which is created with a steam treatment.
   • He used tinted glass cutlery which made all his curries look the same and were either bottle green or a caramel brown.
   • As to the palette, steel blue, medium grey, caramel and white are the first choices.
   • Her silk scarf and soft Icelandic wool sweater complement her deep caramel skin and shoulder-length brown hair.
   • Gomathi had it stripped and sanded to a warm caramel, called it an antique, and sold it to me.
   • Beige, caramel, sand and khaki influence and determine this trend.
   • Over the years his bones have darkened to the rich caramels of their earthen tomb.
   • He inspected it carefully, before concluding that it was caramel - the colour of Felix's skin.
   • The foliage is green, the water a golden caramel, and the final shot sunset will take your breath away.
   • Amber had light caramel brown hair and hazel eyes, she was tall with milky white skin and rosy complexion.

   Synonyms

   hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown
2. 1.2count noun A soft toffee made with sugar and butter that have been melted and further heated.
   a jar of caramels

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   • I was about to bake them with just a little sugar, when I saw a little box of salted butter caramels on the counter, a souvenir from Brittany, and thought I would use a few to sweeten the fruit instead.
   • Off he went to think up new recipes for 30 varieties of truffles and pralines, caramels and rose and violent creams, all created on the Water Street premises.
   • The foil appears to be from Rolo chocolate-covered caramels.
   • I'm eating a chocolate caramel bar and staring out at the quite determined sheets of white rain.
   • Fill a pail with your choice of 300 different kinds of candy sold by the pound, including caramels, licorice, and atomic fireballs.
   • Also in this group are a type of toffee known as caramels.
   • All day long and all the year round they made crackers; they made ornaments for wedding-cakes; they made caramels; they made acidulated drops; they made things unnamed except by children.
   • And unless you're planning on heading to the coastline of Brittany, I know of nowhere else where you can get the superb CBS caramels from Le Roux, the best caramel-maker on earth.
   • As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.
   • Here, you can have these chocolate-covered caramels as reparation.
   • Sample truffles, caramels, hazelnut pralines, raspberry creams, almond butter crunch, handwhipped fudge, chocolate cigars and ice cream to die for.
   • Also in Storck's stable is Milkfuls, a hard caramel candy with sweet milky center that bowed in 1998.
   • Soft creamy caramels, vanilla and white chocolates are the lighter hues that are in big demand.
   • Although we still have financial difficulties, he often brings me a little treat, i.e. caramels or candy or a Tim Horton's fruit muffin.
   • My friends partook of the hot dogs that came off the rotating warming rack but I stuck to a soda and M & Ms or the candy-coated milk caramels called Sugar Babies.
   • While caramels melt, push Popsicle sticks into stem area of the apples.
   • A bag of suckers, chocolate cupcakes, caramels, jawbreakers and licorice all went into the bag first.
   • It has a caramel on top with a few pieces of almond.
   • Thick, chewy caramel chocolate covered with a thin layer of milk chocolate (I guess).
   • Godiva sells its chocolates in selections - nuts and caramels in one box, dark chocolates in another, truffles in another - not piece by piece.