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.
BLUEBEARDS
Noun
Bluebeards
plural of Bluebeard
Source: Wiktionary
BLUEBEARD
Blue"beard, n.
Definition: The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives.
– Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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