Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
rouletted
simple past tense and past participle of roulette
Source: Wiktionary
Rou*lette", n. Etym: [F., properly, a little wheel or ball. See Rouleau, Roll.]
1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
2. (Fine Arts) (a) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. (b) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
3. (Geom.)
Definition: the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 January 2025
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; “they run things by the book around here”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.