Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
CHAMADES
Noun
chamades
plural of chamade
Anagrams
• Macheads, headcams
Source: Wiktionary
CHAMADE
Cha*made, n. Etym: [F. chamade, fr. Pg. chamada, fr. chamar to call, fr. L. clamare.] (Mil.)
Definition: A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
24 May 2025
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”
Coffee Trivia
