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.
HOSTELRIES
Noun
hostelries
plural of hostelry
plural of hostelrie
Anagrams
• lithoseres
Source: Wiktionary
HOSTELRY
Hos"tel*ry, n. Etym: [OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie, fr. hostel. See Hostel.]
Definition: An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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