muscovado

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English

muscovado (top)

Etymology

Corrupted from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish mascabado or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).

Noun

muscovado (countable and uncountable, plural muscovados)

  1. An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

Further reading

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