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.
BAREFACED
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety; “an audacious trick to pull”; “a barefaced hypocrite”; “the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim”- Los Angeles Times; “bald-faced lies”; “brazen arrogance”; “the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress”- Bertrand Russell
bald, barefaced
(adjective) with no effort to conceal; “a barefaced lie”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
barefaced (comparative more barefaced, superlative most barefaced)
Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse; brazen
Open, undisguised
Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair)
Source: Wiktionary
Bare"faced`, a.
1. With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced." Shak.
2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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