caramel

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If the caramel is a little thin, let it cool slightly then re-dip.

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  1. noun A smooth chewy candy made with sugar, butter, cream or milk, and flavoring.
  2. noun Burnt sugar, used for coloring and sweetening foods.
  3. noun A moderate yellow brown.

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  • His brown skin was as smooth as a caramel-coated apple. —  The Silent Cradle
  • The world's crudest alcohol was mixed with caramel, a couple of camphor balls, copious amounts of water, pepper and a shredded plug of tobacco. —  Centennial
  • If the caramel is a little thin, let it cool slightly then re-dip. —  Coconut & Lime
  • Set the pan into another of cold water, and the caramel is then ready for use. —  The Book of Household Management
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from Old Spanish caramel, caramelo, from Portuguese caramel, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of Latin calamus, reed, cane, from Greek kalamos.

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  1. from French caramel, burnt sugar, = Italian caramella = Spanish Portuguese caramelo, a lozenge, sugar-candy, prob. a corruption of Middle Latin calamellus (mellitus), sugar-cane (also by simulation canamella, cannamella, and separately cana mellis, ‘cane of honey’), calamellus being properly diminutive of calamus, a reed, cane: see calamus.
 

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/ˈkærəmɛl/
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