Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
AUBADE
Etymology
Noun
aubade (plural aubades)
A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.
A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.
Coordinate terms
• serenade
• nocturne
Source: Wiktionary
Au`bade", n. Etym: [F., fr. aube the dawn, fr. L. albus white.]
Definition: An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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