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Bar′be-cue.

In the Cingalese treatment of coffee-berries this is the dry floor on which coffee is sundried after the pulp is grated therefrom, and the beans in their parchment envelope have undergone a preliminary soaking. It is circular, of stone, with a white plaster surface, sloping away from the center, and smooth as glass. The coffee is sunned upon it for four days without removing the sac, in which a pair of berries are inclosed, the object being to dry it previous to being dispatched to Kandy.

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