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.
DIAPHONY
Etymology
Noun
diaphony (countable and uncountable, plural diaphonies)
(music) A form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves.
Anagrams
• aphyonid
Source: Wiktionary
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