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.
LUSTERWARE
lusterware
(noun) pottery with a metallic sheen produced by adding metallic oxides to the glaze
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lusterware (countable and uncountable, plural lusterwares)
A type of pottery having an iridescent metallic glaze
Anagrams
• lustreware
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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