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.
BURGONETS
Noun
burgonets
plural of burgonet
Source: Wiktionary
BURGONET
Bur"go*net, n. Etym: [F. bouruignotte, because the Burgundians, F. Bouruignons, first used it.]
Definition: A kind of helmet. [Written also burganet.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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