Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
WISTFUL
pensive, wistful
(adjective) showing pensive sadness; “the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
wistful (comparative more wistful, superlative most wistful)
Full of longing or yearning.
Sad and thoughtful.
Source: Wiktionary
Wist"ful, a. Etym: [For wishful; perhaps influenced by wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly (from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See Wish.]
1. Longing; wishful; desirous. Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea. Swift.
2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative. That he who there at such an hour hath been, Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot. Byron.
– Wist"ful*ly, adv.
– Wist"ful*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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