In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
THICKET
brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
(noun) a dense growth of bushes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
thicket (plural thickets)
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
(computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
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Source: Wiktionary
Thick"et, n. Etym: [AS. . See Thick, a.]
Definition: A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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