'lassesn.
U.S. colloquial.
= molasses n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > molasses
molasses1582
syrup1599
treacle1694
long sweetening1714
syrup of sugar1715
long sugar1728
'lasses1775
longlick1826
sweetness1920
1775 in O. E. Winslow Amer. Broadside Verse (1930) 141/1 The 'lasses they eat every day, Would keep an house a winter.
1807 Salmagundi 16 May 205 This manufacture is called by the Bostonians lasses candy.
1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 3 Jan. Every puppy that would be keeled over with a smaller of rum and 'lasses turns up his nose at him.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xxii. 317 Get along Jack, pokin' your fingers into the 'lasses cup.
1909 F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva 174 Aunt Minerva's in the kitchen right now makin' me a 'lasses custard.
1948 Chicago Tribune 14 Mar. vii. 17/2 Now, come spring, it's ‘'lasses time’ right over the border and ‘sap's a-bilin'’.
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