plural noun

• A mixture of small variously shaped and coloured sweets.

  ‘We finished with my home-made fairy cakes, iced in pastel colours and topped with dolly mixtures and candy flowers.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He told the columnist that at that time, he had some catarrh pastilles, dried peas, pills and dolly mixtures laid out on the ‘operating table’.’
  • ‘The brightly coloured figures appear very much like flattened dolly mixtures.’