† piloncin.
U.S. regional (chiefly south-western). Obsolete.
= piloncillo n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > unrefined or brown sugar
red sugar?a1425
black sugarc1430
panele1562
Canary sugar1568
soft sugar1581
muscovado1592
moist sugar1604
cassonade1657
brown sugar1704
bastard1766
Lisbon1767
bastard sugar1785
moist1809
sand1819
panela1830
piloncillo1844
pilonci1845
penuche1847
the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > coarse sugar
gur1686
groat-sugar1743
bastard1766
foot sugar1818
rapadura1824
gur1834
piloncillo1844
pilonci1845
foot1871
1845 T. J. Green Jrnl. Texian Exped. 264 Our cook brings us in..two and a half pounds of brown sugar, ‘pilonci’.
1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. June 670/2 There was a large flourishing field of cane near the house, which..will probably soon become ‘pilonci’ for the vagabondism of Santa Rosa.
1892 Dial. Notes 1 193 The usual forms in Texas are pilonce and piloncillo; they are applied to loaves of unrefined Mexican sugar.
1895 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 8 52 Corn-meal parched with a trifle of ‘pelonce’, or coarse brown sugar, is one of the staple Mexican foods.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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