bougainvillaeas
plural of bougainvillaea
Source: Wiktionary
Bou`gain*vil*læ`a, n. Etym: [Named from Bougainville, the French navigator.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
