Question: When was the first reference of coffee in the English language
About the article "Coffee", section "Etymology".

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Coffee is a brownish color that is a representation of the color of an unroasted coffee bean.
Different types of coffee beans have different colors when unroasted--the color coffee represents an average.
The first recorded use of "coffee" as a color name in English was in 1695.
The source of the color displayed at right is the ISCC-NBS Color List (see Page C, coffee, color sample #58).  
The first reference to "coffee" in the English language is in the form chaoua, dated to 1598.
In English and other European languages, coffee derives from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, via the Italian caffè.
The Turkish word in turn was borrowed from the Arabic: قهوة, qahwah.
Arab lexicographers maintain that qahwah originally referred to a type of wine, and gave its etymology, in turn, to the verb قها qahā, signifying "to have no appetite", since this beverage was thought to dull one's hunger.
Several alternative etymologies exist that hold that the Arab form may disguise a loanword from an Ethiopian or African source, suggesting Kaffa, the highland in southwestern Ethiopia as one, since the plant is indigenous to that area.
However, the term used in that region for the berry and plant is bunn, the native name in Shoa being būn.
Ethiopian ancestors of today's Oromo people were believed to have been the first to recognize the energizing effect of the coffee plant.
In Ethiopia coffee originated in Keffa Zone, also in the SNNP region.
This Zone has agro-ecological, agricultural practice and socio-cultural similarity with Sidama Zone.
As coffee is a commercial crop and it become one of the best sources of foreign currency, the people in Sidama become very interested in large scale coffee production.
A substantial part of Sidama produces coffee, which is the major cash crop in the region.
Coffee has been the major source of income for the rural households in the coffee producing regions of Sidama.
However, the recent plunge in international coffee price drew most of these households back into the subsistence production and absolute poverty (coffee prices fell dramatically even during the commodity price boom of 2001 to mid-2008).
Sidama is one of the major coffee producing regions in Ethiopia.
It supplies over 40% of washed coffee to the central market.
Coffee is the single major export earner for the country.
Export earnings from coffee ranges from 60-67% although the country's share in the world market is less than 3%.
Considering different coffee producing areas in Ethiopia, one of the special things about Sidama coffee is that it is organic coffee.
Most coffee producing farmers use natural fertilizers and not artificial fertilizer.
As the coffee of Sidama is local variety, it has special aroma (unique test).
As coffee become one of the greatest sources of foreign currency, the government of Ethiopia is promoting coffee producing areas like Sidama Zone for more production.
Due to this, the people of Sidama are now benefiting from this strategy.
Exports from Ethiopia in the 2009/2010 financial year totaled US$1.4 billion.
The country produces more coffee than any other nation in Africa.
In Ethiopia coffee has a special cultural value.
Ethiopians hold coffee ceremonies in which people get together to deal with issues.
Today the Ethiopian coffee ceremony has become a popular activity for tourists.
In Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, drinking coffee is strictly forbidden.
Different religious leaders teach their followers that when a person become very familiar with coffee, he/she will face difficulties (loose of concentration) during fasting time where it is not allowed to eat or drink anything.
In this religion there is meditation time ‘Aremimo’ during fasting and it is assumed that those who have high adaptation with coffee will lose their concentration during meditation time. 
The first reference to coffee in the English language is in the form "chaoua", dated to 1598.
In English and other European languages, "coffee" descends from the Italian word "caffè".
In turn, "caffè" derives from "kahve", the Ottoman Turkish word for coffee, which is itself derived from the , "qahwah".
Arab lexicographers maintain that "qahwah" originally referred to a type of wine, and gave its etymology, in turn, to the verb "qahā", signifying "to have no appetite", since this beverage was thought to dull one's hunger.
Other proposed etymologies include tracing coffee to the word "quwwa," Arabic for power, or to the region of Kaffa in Ethiopia.
For the latter etymology, some hold Arabs named it after the Kaffa region, but others with "equally little authority" say the region was named after the drink.
Despite its proximity to Ethiopia (widely believed to be the region from which coffee originated), one source states that coffee was not cultivated in Kenya until 1893, when French Holy Ghost Fathers introduced coffee trees from Reunion Island.
The mission farms near Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, were used as the nucleus around which Kenyan coffee growing developed.
Overview of the Kenyan coffee industry Another reference claims the British introduced coffee growing into Kenya about 1900. 
Canned coffee is a Japanese innovation, and the term "kan kōhī" is wasei-eigo: the English-language term "can coffee" was created in Japan.
UCC Ueshima Coffee Co. is well known in Japan for pioneering canned coffee with milk in 1969.
The official government web site of Shimane prefecture, Japan, claims that the world's first canned coffee, Mira Coffee, appeared in Shimane in 1965, but this was short-lived.
More significant perhaps was the 1973 introduction by Pokka Coffee of the hot and cold drink vending machine.
In 1983 canned coffee makers shipped more than 100 million cases.
Can design and shape have changed drastically.
The earliest cans were simple in terms of graphic design and were often corrugated in the middle two-thirds of the can.
Cans with straight steel sides appeared next, finally settling on a more modern shape.
Like the earlier cans, this type also starts as a flat sheet that is curled and seamed.
Extruded steel is also used extensively.
Aluminum coffee cans are almost non-existent, although UCC Black is a notable exception.