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Definition of Brown sugar
1. Noun. Unrefined or only partly refined sugar.
Definition of Brown sugar
1. Noun. Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses. ¹
2. Noun. Refined sugar to which molasses has been added. ¹
3. Noun. Street name for heroin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Sugar
Literary usage of Brown sugar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1860)
"It is then that the duties go down to twenty per centum on the value, which will
be little more than half a cent a pound on brown sugar, while the drawback ..."
2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"... a neighboring restaurant, where we had each a loaf of bread, a cup of coffee
with milk (but brown sugar), and three eggs. The bill was sixteen dollars ! ..."
3. Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register edited by Samuel Hazard (1840)
"... in the yean 1837 and 1638, " the whole revenue derived from the importation
of brown sugar in the United States, and an additional sum besides, ..."
4. Debow's Review, Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress and Resources by R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1847)
"During said year there were exported of brown sugar ... 71 Leaves a net revenue
on brown sugar accruing to the United States in 1837, ..."
5. A Treatise on Food and Diet: With Observations on the Dietetical Regimen by Jonathan Pereira (1843)
"The brown, saccharine, viscid fluid, which drains from raw sugar when placed in
hogsheads, is called Molasses, and is used in the preparation of brown sugar ..."
6. The Young Housekeeper's Friend by Cornelius (1862)
"If the child is constipated, use a little more cream, or sweeten with brown sugar.
In the opposite case, use a little less cream. ..."
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