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.
OVERBRIDGE
Etymology
Noun
overbridge (plural overbridges)
(British) A bridge that allows traffic to pass over a road, river, railway etc.
Usage notes
Where a bridge takes one form of transport over another it is both an overbridge and an underbridge, depending on the reference level. For example, where a road passes above a railway, the bridge is an overbridge from the point of view of the railway and an underbridge from the point of view of the road.
Verb
overbridge (third-person singular simple present overbridges, present participle overbridging, simple past and past participle overbridged)
(transitive) To form a bridge over; to overarch.
Source: Wiktionary
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