cachaca
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See also: cachaça
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cachaca (countable and uncountable, plural cachacas)
- Alternative form of cachaça
- 2007 March 9, Mike Sula, “Diversify Your Larder”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Pepe's Food & Liquor (2333 N. Western, 773-278-8756) appears to be your standard neighborhood liquor and sundries store, but it also carries a small stock of Brazilian goods, most importantly two kinds of cachaca, the rumlike sugarcane liquor critical to caipirinhas and batidas.
- 1997 March 7, Don Rose, “Restaurant Tours: Rio rules at Rhumba”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- Though Rhumba has a fine selection of wines, including many by the glass, a good before-dinner bet is Brazil's classic cocktail, the caipirinha, made from a special rumlike drink called cachaca with sugar and sliced limes ($5).
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cachaca f (plural cachacas)
- (Peru, derogatory) female equivalent of cachaco: female police officer
- (Paraguay)a style of cumbia from Paraguay
Adjective
[edit]cachaca
Further reading
[edit]- “cachaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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