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.
EVES
Noun
eves
plural of eve
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• EVSE, vees
Noun
EVEs
plural of EVE
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• EVSE, vees
Noun
Eves
plural of Eve
Anagrams
• EVSE, vees
Source: Wiktionary
EVE
Eve, n. Etym: [See Even, n.]
1. Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.
2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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