In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
MOTEL
motel
(noun) a motor hotel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
motel (plural motels)
(also attributive) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.
A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
Synonyms
• (hotel): See also lodging place
• (love hotel): See also love hotel
Verb
motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle motelling or moteling, simple past and past participle motelled or moteled)
(informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.
Anagrams
• metol
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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