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.
BUSHILY
Etymology
Adverb
bushily (comparative more bushily, superlative most bushily)
In a bushy manner.
Source: Wiktionary
BUSHY
Bush"y, a. Etym: [From 1st Bush.]
1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.
2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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