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mocha

The origin and history of mocha.

Etymology

Named after Mocha, a port city in Yemen that was a major coffee-trading hub under Ottoman rule; the beans traded there often had a naturally chocolaty taste, which is how the word came to mean the coffee-chocolate flavour combination.

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Etymology from freedict-original, original.