cachaça
nounUK /kəˈʃɑː.sə/ · US /kəˈʃɑ.sə/
Etymology Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cachaça, of uncertain origin.
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A type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.
- A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 222:
- Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 34: