UNACCUSTOMED

unaccustomed

(adjective) unusual or unfamiliar; “an unaccustomed pleasure”; “many varieties of unaccustomed foods”; “a new budget of unaccustomed austerity”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unaccustomed (comparative more unaccustomed, superlative most unaccustomed)

Not used to an event or thing, not accustomed.

Verb

unaccustomed

simple past tense and past participle of unaccustom

Source: Wiktionary


Un`ac*cus"tomed, a.

1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18.

2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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