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.
SNOODED
Verb
snooded
simple past tense and past participle of snood
Adjective
snooded (not comparable)
Having or wearing a snood.
Source: Wiktionary
Snood"ed, a.
Definition: Wearing or having a snood. "The snooded daughter." Whittier.
SNOOD
Snood, n. Etym: [AS. sn. Cf. Snare.]
1. The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character. [Scot.] And seldom was a snood amid Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. Sir W. Scott.
2. A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
Snood, v. t.
Definition: To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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