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.
COWBOYING
Verb
cowboying
present participle of cowboy
Source: Wiktionary
COWBOY
Cow"boy` (-boi`), n.
1. A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
2. One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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