cassonade
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cassonade.
Noun
cassonade (countable and uncountable, plural cassonades)
- raw unrefined sugar
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 cassonade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French cassonade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɑ.sɔˈnaː.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: cas‧so‧na‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun
cassonade f (plural cassonades)
- (soft) brown sugar
Synonyms
- (brown sugar): basterdsuiker, bruine suiker
French
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Old Occitan cassonada. See casson + -ade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.sɔ.nad/, /kɑ.sɔ.nad/ (usage hesitates in dialects with the /ɑ/ phoneme)
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Noun
cassonade f (plural cassonades)
- (France) (soft) brown sugar
- Synonyms: sucre roux, vergeoise
Further reading
- “cassonade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.