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.
CREWEL
Noun
crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)
Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Verb
crewel (third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle crewelling, simple past and past participle crewelled)
(transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.
Source: Wiktionary
Crew"el (kr"l), n. Etym: [Perh. for clewel, dim. of clew a ball of thread; or cf. D. krul curl, E. curl. sq. root26.]
Definition: Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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