In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
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FERIA
feria
(noun) (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
feria
(noun) a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated; “in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so ‘secunda feria’ meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
feriae
plural of feria
Anagrams
• faerie, færie
Source: Wiktionary
FERIA
Fe"ri*a, n.; pl. Feriæ (. (Eccl.)
Definition: A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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