angel hair

angel hair
1. Also called capelli d'angelo. Italian Cookery. a type of very thin pasta.
2. a Christmas-tree decoration consisting of long, fine threads of white spun glass.
3. a type of building insulation made of spun glass.
Also, angel's hair.

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