brown sugar

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   unrefined or only partly refined sugar

   Broadersugar

   Narrowerdemerara

Questions about brown sugar

What does brown sugar mean?

brown sugar means "unrefined or only partly refined sugar".

Is brown sugar a common word?

brown sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.