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.
CANAILLE
Etymology
Noun
canaille (countable and uncountable, plural canailles)
(countable, mostly, in the plural) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
(uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour.
Anagrams
• Alliance, alliance, ancillae
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*naille", n. Etym: [F. canaille (cf. It. canaglia), prop. and orig. a pack of dogs, fr. L. Canis dog.]
1. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
2. Shorts or inferior flour. [Canadian]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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