An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
FLABELLUM
Etymology
Noun
flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella)
A large fan used for religious ceremonies.
(botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure.
Source: Wiktionary
Fla*bel"lum, n. Etym: [L. See Flabel.] (Eccl.)
Definition: A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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