rampire (plural rampires)
(archaic) A rampart.
rampire (third-person singular simple present rampires, present participle rampiring, simple past and past participle rampired)
(archaic, transitive) To fortify with a rampart; to form into a rampart.
• rampier
Source: Wiktionary
Ram"pire, n.
Definition: A rampart. [Archaic] The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden.
Ram"pire, v. t.
Definition: To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. [Archaic] Chapman. "Rampired walls of gold." R. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
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.
