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cachaça

cachaça

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A Brazilian alcoholic drink made by distilling fermented sugarcane juice
  • noun
  • /kəˈʃɑːsə/
: cachaça
  • As the adventure travel industry arrived in the Chapada over the last decade, Lenis became a safe, charming New World mountain town with lively restaurants, barrels of aged cachaça, and cobblestone streets.

Examples

  • This started me thinking about the basic question of whether cachaça in the U.S. is today where, say, tequila was some decades ago.

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  • The cachaça burns like acid down her gut.

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  • I was introduced to cachaça by my wife, a Carioca.

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  • Two barrels: Almost guaranteed to turn into a four-barrel-rated cachaça after the third one.

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  • Cachaça, baby!

  • So I decided to start this blog as a means to record and share the cachaça-related items I've been seeing day-to-day.

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  • Her mom, in turn, is the president of the Confraria de Cachaça do Copo Furado, a group that meets monthly to talk about Brazil's indigenous spirit.

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  • You should try cachaça when visiting Brazil, as it is a popular alcoholic drink made from sugarcane.

  • Cachaça is often used to make the famous Brazilian cocktail called caipirinha.

  • At the festival, many people enjoyed drinking cachaça, celebrating Brazil's unique spirit.

Surface Forms

cachaça singular
cachaças plural

Etymology

Cachaça comes from Portuguese and probably from a Tupi word meaning 'sugarcane juice', a helpful way to remember that it is made from sugarcane. So cachaça is the Brazilian spirit distilled from fermented sugarcane juice.