Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
BUTLERAGE
Etymology
Noun
butlerage (countable and uncountable, plural butlerages)
(legal, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
Source: Wiktionary
But"ler*age, n. (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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