Rup"tu*a*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. Roturier.]
Definition: One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. [R.] The exclusion of the French ruptuaries ("roturiers," for history must find a word for this class when it speaks of other nations) from the order of nobility. Chenevix.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 December 2024
(verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong; “The porters singsonged the travellers’ luggage up the mountain”
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.
