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.
GINGERBREADS
Noun
gingerbreads
plural of gingerbread
Source: Wiktionary
GINGERBREAD
Gin"ger*bread`, n.
Definition: A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.
– Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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