Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
ASHEN
ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white
(adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion; “a face turned ashen”; “the invalid’s blanched cheeks”; “tried to speak with bloodless lips”; “a face livid with shock”; “lips...livid with the hue of death”- Mary W. Shelley; “lips white with terror”; “a face white with rage”
ashen
(adjective) made of wood of the ash tree
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)
Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
Etymology 2
Adjective
ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)
Of or resembling ashes.
Ash-colored; pale; anemic, anaemic.
Synonyms
• (sickly pale): See also pallid
Etymology 3
Verb
ashen (third-person singular simple present ashens, present participle ashening, simple past and past participle ashened)
(ambitransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy
(ambitransitive) To make or become pale
Anagrams
• Ehsan, Haens, Hanes, Hanse, Sanhe, Shane, Shean, hanse, heans
Source: Wiktionary
Ash"en, a. Etym: [See Ash, the tree.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." Dryden.
Ash"en, a.
Definition: Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.
Ash"en, n.,
Definition: obs. pl. for Ashes. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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