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.
COURBETTE
Etymology
Noun
courbette (plural courbettes)
A movement in dressage in which the horse makes a series of jumps on the hind legs with the forelegs in the air.
Synonym: curvet
Source: Wiktionary
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18 May 2025
OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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