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.
EQUIPAGE
carriage, equipage, rig
(noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
materiel, equipage
(noun) equipment and supplies of a military force
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)
(uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
(obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
A type of horse-drawn carriage.
The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
Verb
equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)
(transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.
Source: Wiktionary
Eq"ui*page (; 48), n. Etym: [F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip.]
1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.
2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
30 May 2025
FOREHAND
(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
Coffee Trivia
