An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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