marabou, marabout, marabou stork, Leptoptilus crumeniferus
(noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
Source: WordNet® 3.1
marabout (plural marabouts)
A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa. [from 17th c.]
The tomb or shrine of such a person. [from 19th c.]
• tamboura
Source: Wiktionary
Marabout", n. Etym: [F., from Pg. marabuto, Ar. morabit. Cf. Maravedi.]
Definition: A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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.
