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.
LIBERTINES
Noun
libertines
plural of libertine
Source: Wiktionary
LIBERTINE
Lib"er*tine, n. Etym: [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.)
Definition: A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
Definition: One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.
4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]
Lib"er*tine, a. Etym: [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] You are too much libertine. Beau. & Fl.
2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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