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.
BURNETS
Noun
burnets
plural of burnet
Anagrams
• Brunets, Butners, brunets, bunters, burnest, bursten, subrent
Source: Wiktionary
BURNET
Bur"net, n. Etym: [OE. burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. being named from its color), fr. F. brunet, dim. of brun brown; cf. OF. brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings.
– Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage.
– Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis).
– Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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