The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
BASTILLE
bastille
(noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
Bastille
(noun) a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bastille (plural bastilles)
A castle tower, or fortified building; a small citadel or fortress.
A prison or jail.
Verb
bastille (third-person singular simple present bastilles, present participle bastilling, simple past and past participle bastilled)
To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
Anagrams
• Balliets, bile salt, listable
Proper noun
Bastille
A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.
Anagrams
• Balliets, bile salt, listable
Source: Wiktionary
Bas*tile" Bas*tille", n. Etym: [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b.]
1. (Feud. Fort.)
Definition: A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.
2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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