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.
ELEUTHERIAN
Etymology 1
Adjective
Eleutherian (comparative more Eleutherian, superlative most Eleutherian)
Pertaining to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, especially to the original settlers of the island.
Noun
Eleutherian (plural Eleutherians)
One of the original settlers of Eleuthera, who settled prior to the American Revolution.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Eleutherian
One of two temples on the southern slope below the Acropolis.
Adjective
Eleutherian (comparative more Eleutherian, superlative most Eleutherian)
Pertaining to Eleutheria, the personification of freedom, or Zeus Eleutheria, the protector of freedom.
Noun
Eleutherian (plural Eleutherians)
One of a people of Ancient Greece, originally associated with Thebes but later granted rights with Athens.
A member of a splinter group of puritans led by Cotton Mather.
Source: Wiktionary
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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