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.
DUNDER
Etymology 1
Noun
dunder (uncountable)
(Caribbean, West Indies) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
(Australia) distillery effluent, synonymous with the terms stillage, sour mash, vinasse or vinhaca used in other countries.
Etymology 2
Noun
dunder (plural dunders)
(programming, informal) A double underscore.
Anagrams
• Durden, durned, rudden
Source: Wiktionary
Dun"der, n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. redundar to overflow.]
Definition: The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies] The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
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