muscovado

English

muscovado (top)

Etymology

Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).

Noun

muscovado (countable and uncountable, plural muscovados or muscovadoes)

1. An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

Further reading

• muscovado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia