caramel

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The salted caramel was jam-packed with salt and caramel, and while I really enjoyed it, I could only handle a few bites.

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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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  • Then I started on the salted caramel, and this is where my troubles began.
  • The half-glass door of the shop was pasted over with cheap advertisements for boot polish and a brand of caramel, and the light from within struggled uncertainly through the dirty oiled paper. —  Look to the Lady (The Gyrth Chalice Mystery) - Margery Allingham - Campion 03
  • The spice contrasts nicely with the sticky sweetness of the caramel, the crunch of the corn ... —  Cool Hunting
  • Bruno Magli is one of my fave searches, and these exhibit perhaps the perfect shade of caramel, that is, if the pic is accurate ... —  Refinery29
  • In that stroll down Newbury, the brain is also assaulted with temptations -- caramel lattes, iPods, discounted cashmere sweaters, and high-heeled shoes. —  The Common Room
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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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