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.
CLUBBIER
CLUBBY
clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby
(adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
clubbish, clubby
(adjective) effusively sociable; “a clubbish set”; “we got rather clubby”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
clubbier
comparative form of clubby
Source: Wiktionary
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SYCAMORE
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