Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
CLASSICALISM
classicism, classicalism
(noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; “classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
classicalism (countable and uncountable, plural classicalisms)
classicism
Source: Wiktionary
Clas"sic*al*ism, n.
1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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