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.
YORE
yore
(noun) time long past
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
yore (uncountable)
(poetic) a time long past.
Usage notes
A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.
Synonyms
• foretime, yestertide; see also the past
Adverb
yore (not comparable)
(obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
Synonyms
• long since, of old; see also long ago
Anagrams
• Roye, oyer, yero
Source: Wiktionary
Yore, adv. Etym: [OE. , yare, , AS. geára;akin to geár a year, E. year. Year.]
Definition: In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic] As it hath been of olde times yore. Chaucer. Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. Spenser. Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore." Pope. Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. Keble.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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