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.
ENCAUSTICS
Noun
encaustics
plural of encaustic
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Source: Wiktionary
ENCAUSTIC
En*caus"tic, a. Etym: [L. encausticus, Gr. encaustique. See Caustic, and cf. Ink.] (Fine Arts)
Definition: Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors.
– Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.
En*caus"tic, n. Etym: [L. encaustica, Gr. encaustique. See Encaustic, a.]
Definition: The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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