chocolate liquor
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈtʃɔkəˌlɛt ˈlɪkər/
- Specialized
:
licor de chocolate
- at least 10 percent chocolate liquor
Examples
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It's dark chocolate ingredients, Cane sugar, organic chocolate liquor, organic cocoa butter, sea salt, and sunflower.
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The Mount Joy plant produces chocolate liquor and other chocolate products.
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To get chocolate liquor, you have to put those cacao beans through quite a process.
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Dark chocolate contains a lot more chocolate liquor, which comes from grinding roasted cocoa beans.
How Solid
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2.6
4
1.0
7
1.0
8
2.1
- Specialized
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3.5
1
2.4
30
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
chocolate + liquor
The phrase is partly compositional — 'chocolate' + 'liquor' could plausibly be interpreted as a chocolate-related liquid, which aligns with the technical meaning of the cacao paste. However, 'liquor' is commonly known to learners as an alcoholic drink (and is orthographically/semantically confusable with 'liqueur'), and the industrial sense 'cacao liquor' is specialized vocabulary, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would not reliably infer the correct technical sense.
Etymology
Chocolate liquor comes from the thick, dark liquid made when cocoa beans are ground: people called that flowing paste chocolate and used the old word liquor to mean 'liquid', not alcohol. That's why chocolate liquor now means the rich paste or liquid that is the base for all chocolate products.