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.
DRAGONNADE
Etymology
Noun
dragonnade (plural dragonnades)
(historical) A policy by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenots to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
The abandonment of a place to the violence of soldiers.
Source: Wiktionary
Drag`on*nade", n. Etym: [F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
Definition: The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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