muscovado
English
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muscovado (top)
Etymology
Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).
Noun
muscovado (countable and uncountable, plural muscovados)
- An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.
Further reading
muscovado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia