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.
CAPONIER
Etymology
Noun
caponier (plural caponiers)
(military, historical) A type of fortification structure which allows firing along the bottom of a dry moat that surrounds the main fortress.
Anagrams
• apocrine, procaine
Source: Wiktionary
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