There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
CAVALIERED
Verb
cavaliered
simple past tense and past participle of cavalier
Source: Wiktionary
CAVALIER
Cav`a*lier", n. Etym: [F. cavalier, It. cavaliere, LL. caballarius, fr. L. caballus. See Cavalcade, and cf. Cavallier, Caballine.]
1. A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
2. A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
3. One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.
4. (Fort.)
Definition: A work of more that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
Cav`a*lier", a.
Definition: Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.
2. High-spirited. [Obs.] "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." Suckling.
3. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
4. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. "An old Cavalier family." Beaconsfleld.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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