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prettygoodwordmuscovado (mus-kuh-VEY-doh, mus-kuh-VAH-do) - n., raw sugar obtained by evaporating sugar cane juice and draining off the molasses.
So the state before refining it into the typical brown sugar found in the store. Also called moist sugar or Barbados sugar. This used to be the common export from sugar farmers until it became economical to build refineries near the fields. In use since since around 1640, borrowed either from Spanish (azúcar) mascabado or directly from its source Portuguese (açúcar) mascavado, both used for the lowest grade of raw sugar, from mascavar, to separate, from earlier form menoscabar to belittle, detract from, from conjectured Vulgar Latin form *minuscapāre, from minus, smaller/less + *-capāre, from Latin caput, head.
---L.
So the state before refining it into the typical brown sugar found in the store. Also called moist sugar or Barbados sugar. This used to be the common export from sugar farmers until it became economical to build refineries near the fields. In use since since around 1640, borrowed either from Spanish (azúcar) mascabado or directly from its source Portuguese (açúcar) mascavado, both used for the lowest grade of raw sugar, from mascavar, to separate, from earlier form menoscabar to belittle, detract from, from conjectured Vulgar Latin form *minuscapāre, from minus, smaller/less + *-capāre, from Latin caput, head.
---L.
