An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ANTEPENDIUM
Etymology
Noun
antependium (plural antependiums or antependia)
(ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.
Synonym: forecloth
Source: Wiktionary
An`te*pen"di*um, n. Etym: [LL., fr. L. ante + pendere to hang.] (Eccl.)
Definition: The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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