WAIFLIKE

Etymology

Adjective

waiflike (comparative more waiflike, superlative most waiflike)

Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.

Translations, Act I - Brian Friel

"She has a waiflike appearance and could be any age from seventeen to thirty-five."

Source: Wiktionary



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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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