Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CURTAILMENT
retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing
(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
suppression, curtailment
(noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; “a suppression of the newspaper”
curtailment
(noun) the temporal property of being cut short
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
curtailment (plural curtailments)
The act of curtailing
Source: Wiktionary
Cur*tail"ment (kr-tl"ment), n.
Definition: The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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