bagasse

From French bagasse, from Spanish bagazo, from baga (“berry”).

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɡæs/

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bagasse (countable and uncountable, plural bagasses)

1. The residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted.

• megass (archaic), megasse (archaic)

• bagassosis

• base gas, seabags

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡas/

Attested since the 1720s, from Spanish bagazo, from baga (“berry”).^[1]

bagasse f (plural bagasses)

1. bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after extracting the juice)
2. residue of indigo after extracting the dye by fermentation

• → English: bagasse

Attested since the 1580s, from Old Occitan bagassa (“whore”), from Gallo-Roman *bacassa ("servant").^[1][2][3] Some scholars previously postulated an origin in Arabic بَاغِيَة (bāḡiya, “prostitute”), from بَغَاء (baḡāʔ),^[4][5][6][7] but this was doubted by Émile Littré and is now considered unlikely.

bagasse f (plural bagasses)

1. a female prostitute

• → Italian: bagascia