Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
BRASSAGE
Etymology
Noun
brassage (usually uncountable, plural brassages)
A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; seigniorage.
Source: Wiktionary
Bras"sage, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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