SEEPAGE

seepage, ooze, oozing

(noun) the process of seeping

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

seepage (countable and uncountable, plural seepages)

The process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping.

Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Source: Wiktionary


Seep"age, or; Sip"age, n.

Definition: Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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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.

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