Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
BLACKAMOOR
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Blackamoor
A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6925).
Etymology 2
black + -a- + Moor (first recorded use in 1547)
Noun
Blackamoor (plural Blackamoors)
(obsolete or archaic, offensive) A Moor.
Anagrams
• blockorama
Etymology
Noun
blackamoor (plural blackamoors)
(archaic, offensive) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa
a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child
(heraldry) a stylized Negro
Synonyms
• black
• Negro
Anagrams
• blockorama
Source: Wiktionary
Black"a*moor, n. Etym: [Black + Moor.]
Definition: A negro or negress. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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