beguinage (plural beguinages)
A walled community of small houses occupied by the Beguines.
Source: Wiktionary
Be`gui`nage", n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
