muscovado
(mʌskəʊˈvɑːdəʊ)
Also 7–8 muscavado, (8 musco-, muskavada, muscovad, 9 masca-, mascobado).
[a. Sp. mascabado adj., (sugar) of lowest quality. Cf. F. mascovade (1667 in Littré) now moscouade.]
In full muscovado sugar: Raw or unrefined sugar obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporation and draining off the molasses.
| 1642 Rates Merchandizes 32 Sugar, Candy brown..Candy white..Muscovados the hundred weight. 1657 R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 85 The Sugars they made, were but base Muscavadoes,..so moist, and full of molosses, and so ill cur'd. Ibid. 86 Good Muscavado Sugar. 1689 Lond. Gaz. No. 2512/4 Casks of Surinam Muscovado Sugars. 1770–4 A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) I. 419 The best brown sugar of St. Thomas, commonly called Moscovad. 1776 Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. (1869) I. 166 The brown or muskavada sugars imported from our colonies. 1828 Register Debates Congress IV. i. 780 Brown sugar (in which description is comprehended mascabado). 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 626/1 The molasses is drained away from the crystallized raw sugar... The sugar so obtained is the muscovado of the sugar-refiners. 1903 Longm. Mag. Nov. 76 Mascobado, a natural brown sugar, is that which is allowed to drain off without ‘claying’. |