"CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread."
— Mecca

January 1, 1970

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Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906); referring to the Kaaba.