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.
BATTA
Etymology
Noun
batta (countable and uncountable, plural battas)
(India, dated) An exchange rate.
(India, dated) The discount on uncurrent coins.
(India, dated) Extra pay; especially an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
• Tha Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China, and Australasia (volume 28)
Anagrams
• at bat, at-bat
Source: Wiktionary
Bat"ta, n. Etym: [Prob. through Pg. for Canarese bhatta rice in the husk.]
Definition: Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. Whitworth.
Bat"ta, n. Etym: [Hind. ba.]
Definition: Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. [India]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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