In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
DRAGONET
dragonet
(noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dragonet (plural dragonets)
A small dragon.
Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.
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Source: Wiktionary
Drag"on*et, n.
1. A little dragon. Spenser.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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LEAVE
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
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