tafia (tafia)

[Also taffia; IMG:content-2769.jpg:[graphic] In Malay tafia , a spirit distilled from mola es.] West Indies, a kind of rum distilled from the fermented skimmings obtained from cane juice during the proce of boiling down, or from the lower grades of mola es, and also from brown and refuse sugar. From the same sugar-cane come sirop and tafia . G. W. Cable, The Grandi imes, p. 234. Sugar is very difficult to ship; rum and tafia can be handled with le risk. Harper's Mag ., LXXIX. 851.