cane sugar
Americannoun
noun
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the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet See also beet sugar
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another name for sucrose
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Origin of cane sugar
First recorded in 1850–55
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Better than any national event, he recollects the introduction of cube sugar.
From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney
In some such arrangement in use the printing frame containing the negative is fastened to the side of a cube sugar box in which a hole is cut.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
It bore on its side in large black letters the word "cube sugar".
From Lady Bountiful by Birmingham, George A.
It’s billed loaded with barrels of cube sugar, for Calford.
From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell
The ground was strewn in every direction with a litter of white cube sugar, like the wind-swept drifts of a summer snowfall.
From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell
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