molasses

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If a little girl came in with a tin kettle to get some molasses, he would say the molasses was all out, and they would have some more next week.

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  1. noun A thick syrup produced in refining raw sugar and ranging from light to dark brown in color.

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  1. Portuguese melaços, pl. of melaço, from Late Latin mellāceum, must, from Latin mel, mell-, honey; see melit- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also, and properly, melasses; = French melasse = Italian melazzo (also, after F., melassa), from Spanish melaza = Portuguese melaço, molasses, from Latin mellaceus, honey -like, from mel (mell-), honey: see mell.
 

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/məˈlæsɛz/
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