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.
EMBRASURE
port, embrasure, porthole
(noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
embrasure (plural embrasures)
(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
(obsolete) An embrace.
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bra"sure, n. Etym: [See Embrace.]
Definition: An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures."" Shak.
Em*bra"sure (277), n. Etym: [F., fr. embraser, perh. equiv. to ébraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: A splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.
2. (Fort.)
Definition: An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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