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.
CAPONIERE
Etymology
Noun
caponiere (plural caponieres)
(military, historical) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
Source: Wiktionary
Cap`o*niere", n. Etym: [F. caponnière, fr. Sp. caponera, orig., a cage for fattening capons, hence, a place of refuge; cf. It. capponiera. See Capon.] (Fort.)
Definition: A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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