shade-grown
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of shade-grown
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
Example Sentences
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In one project, they work with local village chiefs to cultivate shade-grown coffee as a business, a practice that can be done without inflicting a heavy toll on the forest.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2021
One afternoon last fall, I sat in the Free Speech Movement Café, on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, drinking a fair-trade, shade-grown coffee.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
But so can shade-grown coffee, eggs en cocotte and lawyers pushing strollers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2016
At one point Archy reflects that in our age “everything good in life was either synthesized in transgenic cyborg vats or shade-grown in small batches by a Buddhist collective of blind ex-Carmelite Wiccans.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2012
It is wonderful how beauty perishes like a shade-grown p. 257flower before the sunlight of analysis.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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