Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A favorite drink of the Arabians, especially in Yemen, made of an infusion of the husks or pods of the coffee-berry.
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Examples
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Galla still mix their pulverized coffee beans with fats as a food ration, and others of the native tribes favor the _kisher_, or beverage made from the toasted coffee hulls.
All About Coffee 1909
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The cleaned beans are known as _bun safi_; the husks become _kisher_.
All About Coffee 1909
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They drink _kisher_, a beverage brewed from the husks of the berry and not from the bean.
All About Coffee 1909
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_Cafée sultan_, or _kisher_, the original decoction, made from dried and toasted coffee hulls, is still being drunk in parts of Arabia and
All About Coffee 1909
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Which is where you get the kisher rules banning cheeseburgers.
ThePickards 2009
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à la sultane_, or _kisher_, continues in favor in Arabia.
All About Coffee 1909
qms commented on the word kisher
If you're a bored and weary Yemeni
You fight the stifling heat's hegemony
By drinking some kisher,
That desert elixir,
The Arab's friend and ennui's enemy.
July 18, 2015