PENISTONE

Proper noun

Penistone

A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403).

Anagrams

• epitenons, stone pine

Etymology

From the village of Penistone in Yorkshire, England.

Noun

penistone (countable and uncountable, plural penistones)

(obsolete) A coarse woolen material or frieze, used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Synonym: forest whites

Anagrams

• epitenons, stone pine

Source: Wiktionary



RESET




Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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