Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PARAMATTA
Etymology
Noun
paramatta (countable and uncountable, plural paramattas)
A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino.
Source: Wiktionary
Par`a*mat"ta, n. Etym: [So named from Paramatta, in Australia.]
Definition: A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. Beck (Draper's Dict.)
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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