/mus'keuh vay"doh, -vah"-/ , n.
raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses.
Also, muscavado .
[ 1635-45; ( azúcar ) mascabado )
açúcar ) mascavado, ptp. of mascavar to separate raw sugar, earlier meoscabar, reduced form of menoscabar to belittle, detract from, c. Sp menoscabar to diminish, reduce minuscapare, equiv. to L minus smaller, less (see MINUS) + VL * -capare, deriv. of * capum, for L caput head; cf. ACHIEVE, MISCHIEF ]