Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
VANTAGE
advantage, vantage
(noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; “the experience gave him the advantage over me”
vantage
(noun) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vantage (countable and uncountable, plural vantages)
An advantage.
A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
(dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce)
Verb
vantage (third-person singular simple present vantages, present participle vantaging, simple past and past participle vantaged)
(obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.
Source: Wiktionary
Van"tage (; 48), n. Etym: [Aphetic form of OE. avantage,fr. F. avantage. See Advantage.]
1. superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.] O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! Shak.
2. (Lawn Tennis)
Definition: The first point after deuce.
Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out. To have at vantage, to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. "He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march." Bacon.
– Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. "The vantage ground of truth. Bacon. It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. I. Taylor.
Van"tage, v. t.
Definition: To profit; to aid. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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