muscovado

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noun

An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

OriginSpanish mascabado ← Portuguese mascavado →
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Meanings

nounmuscovado (countable and uncountable, plural muscovados or muscovadoes)

plural muscovados · plural muscovadoes

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

Origin

  1. Portuguesemascavado
  2. Spanishmascabado
  3. Englishmuscovado

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

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APA

muscovado. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muscovado

MLA

“muscovado.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muscovado. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muscovado,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muscovado.

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