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cachaça, n.
Brit. |kəˈʃasə|, |kəˈʃɑːsə|, |kəˈʃɑːkə|, U.S. |ˌkəˈʃɑsə|, |ˌkəˈʃɑkə|
Forms: 18– cachaça cachaca, 19– cacassa, 19– cachacha, 19– cachaka, 19– cachasa, 19– cachaxa, 19– cashaca
[‹ Brazilian Portuguese cachaça (1635), further etymology uncertain.]
A type of Brazilian spirit, similar to white rum, made from pure sugar-cane juice rather than molasses.
1856D. P. Kidder & J. C. Fletcher Brazil & Brazilians vii. 126 Often Congo or Mozambique becomes eloquent under the effects of cachaça. 1869R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. xx. 189 Here men drink their Cachaça heroically; the effect is ‘liver’, dropsy, and death. 1920Inland S. Amer. Sept. 142 The Indians had given up drinking ‘cachaça’, dancing, having great feasts, and fighting. 1992Where Dec. 22/1 The Brazilian aperitif caldinho (black bean juice with cachaca). 2004Observer Food Monthly Apr. 33/2 A succession of batidas, fruit juices whisked up with a shot of condensed milk, and spiked with cachaça. |