bagasse

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

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

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

Attested since the 1580s, from Old Occitan bagassa (“whore”), from Gallo-Roman *bacassa ("servant").[1][2][3]

(Some scholars previously postulatd that it derived from Arabic باغية‎ (bàghya, “prostitute”), from بغاء‎ (bàghà),[4][5][6][7] but this was doubted by Émile Littré and is now considered unlikely.)

bagasse f (plural bagasses)

1. a female prostitute