pentice (plural pentices)
An extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath; an appentice.
A covered walkway.
(mining) An unexcavated portion of a shaftway, intended to afford protection from falling debris to workers at the bottom of the shaft during certain stages of mining.
• (appentice): pent
• pectine
Source: Wiktionary
Pen"tice, n. Etym: [F. appentis a penthouse. See Append.]
Definition: A penthouse. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 February 2025
(noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed; “the restoration looked exactly like the original”
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.
