Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
RIVAGE
Etymology
Noun
rivage (plural rivages)
(now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
(legal, UK, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Anagrams
• Argive, virgae
Source: Wiktionary
Riv"age, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. ripa bank, shore.]
1. A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson.
2. (O.Eng.Law)
Definition: A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
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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