muscovado

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muscovado

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

noun muscovados · muscovadoes

countable, uncountable An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

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@misc{muscovado_2026,
  title = {muscovado},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muscovado},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}