vinasse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinasse, from vin, or from Vulgar Latin vīnācea, or from the neuter plural of Late Latin vīnāceus, from Latin vīnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈnæs/

Noun

vinasse (countable and uncountable, plural vinasses)

1. (chemistry) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vinasse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• evasins, savines

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French

Etymology

vin +‎ -asse or possibly from Vulgar Latin vīnācea, from the neuter plural of Late Latin vīnāceus, from Latin vīnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.nas/

• Audio:

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Noun

vinasse f (plural vinasses)

1. (chemistry) vinasse
2. (colloquialism) Poor-quality, bad-tasting wine.

Related terms

• vin