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.
CANASTER
Etymology
Noun
canaster (uncountable)
(tobacco) Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
Anagrams
• Ancaster, Canteras, cane rats, caterans
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*nas"ter, n. Etym: [Sp. canasta, canastro, basket, fr. L. canistrum. See Canister.]
Definition: A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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