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.
TASSES
Noun
tasses
plural of tasse
Anagrams
• TESSAs, assets, stases
Source: Wiktionary
TASSE
Tasse, n. Etym: [OF. tassette.]
Definition: A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Note: Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NEGLECT
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