In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
BIBS
Noun
bibs
plural of bib
Verb
bibs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bib
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Source: Wiktionary
BIB
Bib, n. Etym: [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
3. A bibcock.
Bib, Bibbe, v. t. Etym: [L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe.]
Definition: To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.
Bib, v. i.
Definition: To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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