An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OMBRE
Etymology 1
Noun
ombre (uncountable)
A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
Etymology 2
Noun
ombre (plural ombres)
(archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa
Synonyms
• umbra, umbrine
Etymology 3
Noun
ombre (plural ombres)
(colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.
Anagrams
• brome, omber
Source: Wiktionary
Om"ber, Om"bre, n. Etym: [F. hombre, fr. Sp. hombre, lit., a man, fr. L. homo. See Human.]
Definition: A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons. Pope. When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two, he fails not to make three. Young.
Om"bre, n. Etym: [F., of uncertain origin.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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