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.
COLUBRINA
Colubrina, genus Colubrina
(noun) mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
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(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
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