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.
DUCKBOARD
duckboard
(noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
duckboard (plural duckboards)
One of a long series of boards laid as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
Source: Wiktionary
Word of the Day
10 January 2025
INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
Coffee Trivia
