BROWNE

Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward

(noun) United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867)

Browne, Hablot Knight Browne, Phiz

(noun) English illustrator of several of Dickens’ novels (1815-1882)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

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.

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