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‖ tafia|ˈtæfɪə|
Also 8 taffia, taffey, -fy.
[Origin uncertain: given in 1722 as native name in West Indies (Labat Voy. aux Iles de l' Amér. III. 410 L'eau-de-vie qu'on tire des cannes est appelée guildive [see kill-devil]; les sauvages et les nègres l'appellent tafia): but tāfīa is also given in Malay dicts. as ‘a spirit distilled from molasses’. The word appears therefore to be widely diffused in east and west.]
A rum-like spirituous liquor obtained from the lower grades of molasses, refuse brown sugar, etc.
1763tr. Le Page du Pratz's Hist. Louisiana II. iv. iv. 266 At night you shall have a cup of Tafia (or rum) to give you strength and spirits. 1777(Apr. 10) in Illinois Hist. Collect. (1903) I. 296 The person that intoxicated them with Rum or Taffia. 1779in W. H. English Conq. Northwest (1896) I. 375, 7½ gallons of taffey at sixty-four dollars per gallon. 1779G. R. Clark Campaign Illinois (1869) 79, I..gave them..Taffy and Provisions to make merry on and left them. 1793Trapp tr. Rochon's Madagascar 189 Over which he poured some tafia or rum. 1799Naval Chron. I. 173 A sloop laden with taffia. 1880G. W. Cable Grandissimes xxviii. 197 From the same sugar-cane comes sirop and tafia. 1889Harper's Mag. Nov. 851 Sugar is very difficult to ship; rum and tafia can be handled with less risk. |