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.
PEARLINGS
Etymology 1
Noun
pearlings
plural of pearling
Etymology 2
Noun
pearlings pl (plural only)
(Scotland) A kind of lace of silk or thread.
Anagrams
• espringal, graplines, presignal, rapelings, relapsing, spanglier
Source: Wiktionary
Pearl"ins, Pearl"ings, n. pl. Etym: [Prob. a corruption of purflings. See Purfle.]
Definition: A kind of lace of silk or thread. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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