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   Choc·o·late

   /ˈCHäk(ə)lət/

   

   noun

   • 1. a food preparation in the form of a paste or solid block made from roasted and ground cacao seeds, typically sweetened: "a bar of chocolate"
   • ▪ a candy made of or covered with chocolate: "a box of chocolates"
   • ▪ hot chocolate: "I drink chocolate because it is so soothing"
   • ▪ a deep brown color: "huge spiders, yellow and chocolate brown"

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘a drink made with chocolate’): from French chocolat or Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl chocolatl ‘food made from cacao seeds’, influenced by unrelated cacaua-atl ‘drink made from cacao’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. chocolaty adjective

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