OUTREMER

Etymology

Noun

outremer (plural outremers)

An area beyond the sea.

Etymology

Proper noun

Outremer

(historical, chiefly, of France) The French Crusader States established in the Middle East after the First Crusade.

Source: Wiktionary



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28 April 2024

POLYGENIC

(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes


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Coffee Trivia

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.

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