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CHOCOLATE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 259 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHOCOLATE , a See also:

paste of the ground kernels of the See also:cocoa See also:bean, mixed with See also:sugar, See also:vanilla or other flavouring, made into a cake, which is used for the manufacture of various forms of sweetmeat, or in making the beverage, also known as " chocolate," obtained by dissolving cakes of chocolate in boiling See also:water or See also:milk (see CoeoA). The word came into Eng. through the Fr. chocolat or Span. chocolate from the Mex. chocolatl. According to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary (quoting R. See also:Simeon, Dict. de la langue Nahuatl), this was " an See also:article of See also:food made of . . . the seeds of cacao and of the See also:tree pochotl (Bombax ceiba)," and was etymologically distinct from the Mexican cacauatl, cacao, or cocoa.

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