ghillie, gillie
(noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ghillie (plural ghillies)
A low-cut type of shoe with decorative lacing.
Alternative spelling of gillie.
ghillie (third-person singular simple present ghillies, present participle ghillying, simple past and past participle ghillied)
Alternative spelling of gillie.
Source: Wiktionary
17 April 2025
(noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
