kachina
(noun) a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift
kachina
(noun) a deified spirit of the Pueblo people
kachina
(noun) a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
kachina (plural kachinas)
(Pueblo culture) A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth, or corn (among other things).
(Pueblo culture) A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.
(Pueblo culture) A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
