Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
PANDOUR
Etymology
From Medieval Latin banderius, a follower of a banner.
Noun
pandour (plural pandours)
One of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army.
(obsolete) A robber.
Anagrams
• Panduro
Source: Wiktionary
Pan"dour, n.
Definition: One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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