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.
COSTUMED
costumed
(adjective) dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
costumed
simple past tense and past participle of costume
Adjective
costumed (not comparable)
Wearing a costume; disguised.
Anagrams
• customed
Source: Wiktionary
COSTUME
Cos"tume` (ks"tm` or ks-tm"), n. Etym: [F. costume, It. costume custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen (not found), for consuetudo custom. See Custom, and cf. Consuetude.]
1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.
3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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