The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
FASCIOLE
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Noun
fasciole (plural fascioles)
(zoology) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fas"ci*ole, n. Etym: [L. fasciola a little bandage. See Fascia.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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