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.
GLAMOUR
glamor, glamour
(noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx
(verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)
(countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
Verb
glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)
(transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
Source: Wiktionary
Gla"mour, n. Etym: [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. glámeggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma; or Icel. glam-s weakness of sight, glamour; glamr name of the moon, also of a ghost + s sight akin to E. see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.]
1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.
3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black.
4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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