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.
BOWERIES
Noun
boweries
plural of bowery
Source: Wiktionary
BOWERY
Bow"er*y, a.
Definition: Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.
Bow"er*y, n.; pl. Boweries Etym: [D. bouwerij.]
Definition: A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.
Bow"er*y, a.
Definition: Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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