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.
SILKINESS
silkiness, sleekness
(noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
silkiness (usually uncountable, plural silkinesses)
The property of being silky.
Anagrams
• Lesinskis
Source: Wiktionary
Silk"i*ness, n.
1. The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
2. Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness. [R.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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