In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
DATELINE
dateline
(noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
dateline, date line, International Date Line
(noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
dateline, datemark, date-mark
(verb) mark with a date and place; “dateline a newspaper article”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dateline (plural datelines)
(journalism) A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
Verb
dateline (third-person singular simple present datelines, present participle datelining, simple past and past participle datelined)
To attach a dateline to a particular document
Anagrams
• entailed, leniated, lineated
Source: Wiktionary
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