fairy bread
noun [mass noun] Australian /NZ
Sweet bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands: there’ll be activities for the children, and vanilla scones and fairy bread...
- The primary school student treats himself to some fairy bread during the party.
- Hundreds and thousands were also prominent, with students snacking on fairy bread.
- There were thousands of people there, and a cake that looked like a train, balloons, gifts, and fairy bread!
Origin
1920s: perhaps from the title of a poem of 1885 by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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