单词 | muscovado |
释义 | muscovado /mus'keuh vay"doh, -vah"-/, n. raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Also, muscavado. [1635-45; ( < Sp (azúcar) mascabado) < Pg (açúcar) mascavado, ptp. of mascavar to separate raw sugar, earlier meoscabar, reduced form of menoscabar to belittle, detract from, c. Sp menoscabar to diminish, reduce < VL *minuscapare, equiv. to L minus smaller, less (see MINUS) + VL *-capare, deriv. of *capum, for L caput head; cf. ACHIEVE, MISCHIEF] |
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