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.
BACKBURN
Etymology
Noun
backburn (plural backburns)
A controlled fire, lit in the path of a wildfire, in order to deprive it of combustible material.
Verb
backburn (third-person singular simple present backburns, present participle backburning, simple past and past participle backburned)
To light a fire for this reason.
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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