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

  • 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

  • The cleaned beans are known as _bun safi_; the husks become _kisher_.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • They drink _kisher_, a beverage brewed from the husks of the berry and not from the bean.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • _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

  • Which is where you get the kisher rules banning cheeseburgers.

    ThePickards 2009

  • à la sultane_, or _kisher_, continues in favor in Arabia.

    All About Coffee 1909

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  • 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