In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
EMMA
Etymology
Noun
emma (plural emmas)
(British, dated, WWI, signalese) M in RAF phonetic alphabet
Etymology
Proper noun
Emma
A female given name from Germanic languages.
Usage notes
• Used in England since the Norman Conquest, fashionable in the 19th century, and again in the U.K. from the 1970s to the 1990s, and in the U.S.A. in the 1990s and the 2000s.
Source: Wiktionary
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