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.
CLAPBOARDED
Verb
clapboarded
simple past tense and past participle of clapboard
Source: Wiktionary
CLAPBOARD
Clap"board, n.
1. A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]
2. A stave for a cask. [Eng.] Halliwell.
Clap"board, v. t.
Definition: To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. [U. S.] Bartlett.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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