cassonade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cassonade.

Noun

cassonade (countable and uncountable, plural cassonades)

1. raw unrefined sugar

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cassonade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cassonade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑ.sɔˈnaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: cas‧so‧na‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

cassonade f (plural cassonades)

1. (soft) brown sugar

Synonyms

• (brown sugar): basterdsuiker, bruine suiker

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan cassonada. See casson ‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.sɔ.nad/ ~ /kɑ.sɔ.nad/ (usage hesitates in dialects with the /ɑ/ phoneme)

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Noun

cassonade f (plural cassonades)

1. (France) (soft) brown sugar

   Synonyms: sucre roux, vergeoise

Further reading

• “cassonade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.