MAILE

Etymology 1

Noun

maile (plural mailes)

A flowering Hawaiian vine, of the genus Alyxia, used to make lei.

Etymology 2

Noun

maile (uncountable)

Obsolete form of mail (chainmail).

Anagrams

• Lamie, ameli, e-mail, email

Source: Wiktionary



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25 September 2023

QUAINT

(adjective) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); “houses with quaint thatched roofs”; “a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots”


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Coffee Trivia

Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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