noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

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

Etymology

Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).

Related phrases

brown sugar

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