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molasses

Latin mel 'honey' gave Late Latin mellacium; Portuguese melaço named the dark syrup of the Atlantic sugar plantations in Brazil, and English took it in the 1580s. In North America molasses fed the rum trade, while Britain came to call it treacle.

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