Pronounced: feh-STOON, noun
Notes: I know the verb, but I didn’t know the noun meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word zarf is “a sleeve or holder designed to hold a hot cup”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I didn’t know that there was a word for this. Our word came from the Arabic word zarf (container; sheath).
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