butterscotch

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I have three varieties of pudding at present: chocolate, butterscotch, and vanilla and I certainly can eat them … but I won't because I am on the "Leaner Lawrence" contest rules … I like to look at them and torture myself.

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  1. noun A syrup, sauce, candy, or flavoring made by melting butter and brown sugar together.
  2. noun A golden or tawny brown.

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  • But that frosted glass door opened into a foreign world, a butterscotch-colored anteroom with fabric-swathed walls and two more frosted-glass doors marked salon and spa. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
  • The lenses of these sunglasses are sandy-butterscotch in color. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
  • While long lines form for the gritty gelato at Grom, our passion is the creamier product found at L'Arte del Gelato, where, in addition to standard Italian flavors, you can get Americanized choices like butterscotch (salty!) and mint-chocolate (smudgy!). —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • It's made with an elegant graham-cracker crust and a drizzling of butterscotch, and, more than most of the food at Fishtail, it manages to strike that classic Burkean balance between ingenuity, showmanship, and fun.
  • The nutty butter cake is warm and smothered in a butterscotch-toffee-like blanket. —  www.appeal-democrat.com - News :
 

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  1. Alteration of butterscot : butter + scot, of unknown origin.
 

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