Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Unrefined or incompletely refined sugar that still retains some molasses, which gives it a brownish color.
- n. A commercial product made by the addition of molasses to white sugar.
Wiktionary
- n. Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses.
- n. Refined sugar to which molasses has been added.
- n. Street name for heroin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unrefined or only partly refined sugar
Examples
“Karla’s excellent southern cooking lingers as a shimmering grease spot on my memory: oily waffles with melted butter and brown sugar syrup, delicately crispy fried chicken and beer-battered prawns smothered in tartar sauce, pork chops with caramel baked apples, biscuits and mashed potatoes drowning in sausage gravy.”
“Brown Sugar Body Buff by Zia incorporates brown sugar and sea salt, with organic clover honey, sea kelp, and algae extracts that soften and nourish the skin.”
“Sometimes I think of Jamal as a literary character from an anthology of my favorite books: His charisma is part Salinger’s Zooey Glass, coated in the brown sugar of Tea Cake from Their Eyes Were Watching God, with the sly cool of a Dashiell Hammett detective, and the hot looks of a Walter Mosley one.”
“Secondly, boil sour-wood bark or leaves to a strong decoction, then strain the decoction and boil it down to the consistency of molasses, then take common brown sugar and heat it in an oven over a slow fire until it melts and again becomes dry and lumpy, then add them together -- proportions, four table spoonfuls of the molasses to one pound of sugar, to which add three table spoonfuls of sweet or British oil, put it again over a slow fire and mix it well together, and bottle for use.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brown sugar’.
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Sugar
sugar, sugar cube, sugar of lead, The Sugarcubes, table sugar, sucrose, sugar cane, sugar beet, brown sugar, sugar alcohol, sugar of milk, sugar orchard and 129 more...
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EN - coloured collocations
The bad news: There are possibly tens of thousands of colour collocations in English. The good news is that the pictures retrieved by Wordnik from flickr will probably match the terms this time.
black currant, black eye, black pudding, blue baby, Blue Beard, blue bell, blue berry, blue blood, Blue Book, blue bottle, blue cheese, blue chip and 280 more...
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I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.
List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...
black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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brown phrases/words
how brown is used
brown ale, brown algae, brown ant, brown-back, brown bag, brown-bag, brown-bagger, brown-bagging, brown-bag lunch, brown baker, brown-barrelled, brown bastard and 119 more...
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Songs Named After Food
raspberry beret, pineapple jam, on top of spaghetti, yes, we have no b..., don't sit under t..., sugar, sugar, strawberry fields..., catfish, glass onion, honey pie, lady marmalade, no sugar tonight and 70 more...
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
holy toledo, gourmet popcorn, apple jack, barbara bush, burning desire, hot tamale, tradescant, sweet surrender, sweet chariot, pinocchio, oyster pearl, olympiad and 309 more...
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It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
smack, dope, junk, mud, h, skag, black tar, horse, brown sugar, chiva, boy, black and 237 more...
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Neighborly Christmas Cookie Extravaga...
flour, butter, eggs, cinnamon, shortening, baking soda, chocolate chips, pretty sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, salt, oatmeal
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My Pantry
Inspired by Groceries, the list.
soup, 5lb bag of sugar, syrup, horseradish, ketchup, lemonade mix, iced tea mix, chocolate milk mix, bag-o-mixed nuts ..., 3 jars of mustards, plum sauce, water chestnuts and 57 more...
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Honeyed
A list of esculent adjectives for skin and hair tones.
buttery, mocha, cafe au lait, plum, chocolatey, milky, peaches and cream, coffee, chestnut, butterscotch, cinnamon, cocoa and 13 more...
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