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lateer
[< Cdn F < F la tire toffee < tirer draw, pull]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:la tire
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
maple-syrup candy, often made by pouring the syrup over the snow so that it hardens in brittle sheets.
See: taffy(def. 1)
Quotations
1903
. . . the gentlemen served each lady with a block of hard snow upon which had been poured some of the boiling [maple] sugar, which immediately hardened into "lateer," or "taffy."
1959
Then . . . we pass around, pouring out this hot [maple] syrup onto the snow. We call this syrup on snow la tire, and how good it tastes!