LOWLIGHT

Etymology

Noun

lowlight (plural lowlights)

A particularly bad or mediocre aspect.

In hairstyling, a highlight in a darker colour rather than a lighter one.

Coordinate terms

• highlight

Verb

lowlight (third-person singular simple present lowlights, present participle lowlighting, simple past and past participle lowlighted)

(transitive) To dye (part of the hair) a darker colour than the rest.

Anagrams

• owllight

Source: Wiktionary



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CATCH

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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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