词汇 | mocha |
词源 | mocha. The Arabian Red Sea port of Mocha gave its name to the variety of coffee called mocha sometime in the early 15th century, when it was a leading exporter of coffee beans. It was only when chocolate was flavored with mocha coffee centuries later that mocha became the word for a chocolate brown color. Today the city of Mocha is in Yemen and is called Mukka. See moby dick. |
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