The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
POUSSETTE
Etymology
Noun
poussette (plural poussettes)
A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
(card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.
Verb
poussette (third-person singular simple present poussettes, present participle poussetting, simple past and past participle poussetted)
To waltz around each other, as two couples do in a contra dance.
Source: Wiktionary
Pous*sette", n. Etym: [F., pushpin, fr. pousser to push. See Push.]
Definition: A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. Dickens.
Pous*sette", v. i.
Definition: To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson. Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. J. & H. Smith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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