Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
DANEGELD
Etymology
Noun
Danegeld (uncountable)
(history) A tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax.
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Source: Wiktionary
Dane"geld`, Dane"gelt`, n. Etym: [AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n.] (Eng. Hist.)
Definition: An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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