There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
SHOWBREAD
Etymology
Noun
showbread (countable and uncountable, plural showbreads)
The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table.
Source: Wiktionary
Show"bread`, n. (Jewish Antiq.)
Definition: Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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