There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
GINGERBREAD
gingerbread
(noun) cake flavored with ginger
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gingerbread (countable and uncountable, plural gingerbreads)
(food) A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
(figurative, obsolete) Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
(architecture) A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.
Source: Wiktionary
Gin"ger*bread`, n.
Definition: A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.
– Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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