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.
REVESTIARIES
Noun
revestiaries
plural of revestiary
Source: Wiktionary
REVESTIARY
Re*ves"ti*a*ry, n. Etym: [LL. revestiarium: cf. F. revestiaire. See Revest.]
Definition: The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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