curaçao

• curacao
• curacoa, curaçoa (both dated)

From Dutch curaçao, named after the island Curaçao, one of the Dutch Antilles, itself from Portuguese curação (“medical cure”), from Latin cūrātiō (“cure”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/, /ˈkjuːɹəsəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsaʊ/, /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsoʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsaʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsoʊ/

curaçao (countable and uncountable, plural curaçaos)

1. A liqueur, made from eau-de-vie, sugar and, as flavor, dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but often artificially colored blue.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• curacoa, curaçoa

From Dutch curaçao, named after the island Curaçao.

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.so/

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curaçao m (plural curaçaos)

1. the orange peel-flavored liqueur curaçao

• “curaçao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.