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.
CLARION
clarion
(adjective) loud and clear; “a clarion call”
clarion
(noun) a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
clarion
(verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
clarion
(verb) blow the clarion
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
clarion (plural clarions)
(historical, musical instrument) A medieval brass instrument, related to the trumpet, or its sound.
Synonym: claro
(heraldiccharge) A different type of musical instrument resembling an organ.
Verb
clarion (third-person singular simple present clarions, present participle clarioning, simple past and past participle clarioned)
(intransitive) To sound a clarion (trumpet-like instrument).
(figurative) To make a similar sound to the instrument.
Anagrams
• Locrian, acrinol, alicorn, carolin, clairon, clarino
Proper noun
Clarion
An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
A city, the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States.
A county seat borough, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States.
A river in Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River.
Anagrams
• Locrian, acrinol, alicorn, carolin, clairon, clarino
Source: Wiktionary
Clar"i*on, n. Etym: [OE. clarioun, OF. clarion, F. clairon, LL. clario, claro; so called from its clear tone, fr. L. clarus clear. See Clear.]
Definition: A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. E. Everett.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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