Flap"drag`on, n.
1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.
2. The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.
Flap"drag`on, v. t.
Definition: To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
