Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
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DUSKY
dusky, dark-skinned, swart, swarthy
(adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color; âa dark-skinned beautyâ; âgold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeksâ; âa smile on his swarthy faceâ; ââswartâ is archaicâ
dusky, twilight, twilit
(adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight; âThe dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the mornâ-Henry Fielding; âthe twilight glow of the skyâ; âa boat on a twilit riverâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
duskier
comparative form of dusky
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Source: Wiktionary
DUSKY
Dusk"y, a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.
4. Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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