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.
PENNON
pennon, pinion
(noun) wing of a bird
pennant, pennon, streamer, waft
(noun) a long flag; often tapering
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pennon (plural pennons)
A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
(nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.
Synonym: pennant
(literary, obsolete) A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing.
Synonym: pinion
Source: Wiktionary
Pen"non, n. Etym: [Cf. Pinion.]
Definition: A wing; a pinion. Milton.
Pen"non, n. Etym: [See Pennant.]
Definition: A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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