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bagasse.

bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after extracting the juice)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ba.ɡas/
  1. bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after extracting the juice)

    feminine
  2. residue of indigo after extracting the dye by fermentation

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Attested since the 1720s, from Spanish bagazo, from baga (“berry”).

noun/ba.ɡas/
  1. a female prostitute

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Attested since the 1580s, from Old Occitan bagassa (“whore”), from Gallo-Roman *bacassa ("servant"). Some scholars previously postulated an origin in Arabic بَاغِيَة (bāḡiya, “prostitute”), from بَغَاء (baḡāʔ), but this was doubted by Émile Littré and is now considered unlikely.

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