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.
GABLING
Noun
gabling (countable and uncountable, plural gablings)
(architecture) Gables collectively.
Source: Wiktionary
GABLE
Ga"ble, n.
Definition: A cable. [Archaic] Chapman.
Ga"ble, n. Etym: [OE. gable, gabil, F. gable, fr. LL. gabalum front of a building, prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. OHG. gibil, G. giebel gable, Icel. gafl, Goth. gibla pinnacle; perh. akin to Gr. cephalic, or to G. gabel fork, AS. geafl, E. gaffle, L. gabalus a kind of gallows.] (Arch.) (a) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence: (b) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. (c) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. Bell gable. See under Bell.
– Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end.
– Gable wall. Same as Gable (b).
– Gable window, a window in a gable.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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