Crossword clues for demerara
demerara
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of Demerara English)
WordNet
n. a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana
a river in northern Guyana that flows northward into the Atlantic
a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana
dark rum from Guyana [syn: demerara rum]
light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana [syn: demerara sugar]
Wikipedia
Demerara is a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America which is now part of the country of Guyana. It was a Dutch colony until 1815 and a county of British Guiana from 1838 to 1966. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown.
The name "Demerara" comes from a variant of the Arawak word "Immenary" or "Dumaruni" which means "river of the letter wood". Demerara sugar is so named because originally it came from sugar cane fields in the colony of Demerara.
Demerara may refer to:
- Demerara in Guyana – one of the original Dutch and later British colonies that make-up present-day Guyana
- Demerara sugar, a natural brown sugar from Guyana
- Demerara River, a river of Guyana
Usage examples of "demerara".
She shut her eyes from the sight of the Demerara supple-jack descending right and left upon the skulls of a couple of bully lads.
A valiant skiff upon a sea of enemies, he was having it on the nob, and suddenly the Demerara lightened.
It was on its third quart-sized mug of Demerara Sours, and its sense cluster had been retracted for all of that time, leaving it deaf and blind, lost in its own thoughts.
I am the one who remembers that he takes two lumps of Demerara in a demitasse of black coffee.
English attacked the Dutch settlements of Surinam, Demerara, and Essequibo, and a convention of neutrality was concluded between France, Spain, and Portugal.
Excellent, he lied, reaching for the sugar bowl and spooning several heaped tea-spoonfuls of what he fervently hoped was demerara sugar into his cup.
Hey presto again, she was best-selling author of a monthly series of semi-fictional booklets with settings from Demerara to Siberia expounding all the principles of political economy.
The syllables rolled off his tongue, rich and warm as Demerara sugar left melting in the Caribbean sun.
In lieu of Squeak food, they were supping on the least putrid human groceries available: dandelion salad with Angostura bitters, grilled black pudding, squid fritters, kim chee, Icelandic hrokkbraud and Marmite, Bananas Foster, and a big pitcher of scorpion cocktails made with Demerara rum.
Navy Department had upset Jack Aubrey, but not very much: not nearly so much as that distant victory off the Demerara river.
But he did that briskly enough, and he certainly sank poor Peacock off the Demerara river.
Mummy would have been horrified at how expensive Demerara sugar was in Toronto.
She would make preserves from them, stew them in her precious Demerara sugar to keep them until he returned.
She went to the kitchen, put the kettle on to boil, fetched the ginger root from the crisper of the fridge and the Demerara sugar in its cookie tin from the cupboard, along with the nutmeg.
One evening about eleven when we habitually dealt the last hand and I prepared his bedtime drink, cocoa laced with Demerara rum he remembered something important.