"muscovado" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: muscovados [plural], muscovadoes [plural]
Etymology: Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|es|mascabado}} Spanish mascabado, {{uder|en|pt|mascavado}} Portuguese mascavado, {{m|pt|mascavar}} mascavar, {{m|pt|menoscabar||to despise}} menoscabar (“to despise”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|es}} muscovado (countable and uncountable, plural muscovados or muscovadoes)
  1. An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sugars

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