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Dulce de leche

2 stages from Spanish to English.

Today it means a sweet, caramel-like confection made by slowly heating sweetened milk
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dulce de leche
Spanish · 1800s
"sweet of milk"
literally sweet of milk, describing milk and sugar slowly caramelized together
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dulce de leche
English · 1900s
"a caramelized milk and sugar confection"
adopted directly for the caramelized milk confection popular across Latin America
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