turbinado sugar


tur·bi·na·do sugar

T5457600 (tûr′bĭ-nä′dō)n. A partially refined, light brown granulated sugar from which most of the molasses has been removed.
[From Portuguese turbinado, shaped like an inverted cone (as a lump of raw sugar) (from the fact that raw sugar crystals were once separated from molasses by spinning in a centrifuge lined with conical molds), from turbina, centrifuge for separating sugar crystals from molasses, from French turbine, turbine; see turbine.]