Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
RUBRICATE
rubricate
(verb) sign with a mark instead of a name
miniate, rubricate
(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; “In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated”
rubricate
(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; “the manuscript is not rubricated”
rubricate
(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; “She was rubricated by the pope”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rubricate (comparative more rubricate, superlative most rubricate)
(obsolete) Marked with red.
Verb
rubricate (third-person singular simple present rubricates, present participle rubricating, simple past and past participle rubricated)
(transitive) To write in the form of a rubric.
To create rubrication; to illuminate a manuscript with red letters.
Anagrams
• bicrurate
Source: Wiktionary
Ru"bri*cate, a. Etym: [L. rubricatus p.p. of rubricare to color red. See Rubric, n.]
Definition: Marked with red. Sp
Ru"bri*cate, v. t.
Definition: To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe. A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. Hare.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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