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.
ESTANCIA
Etymology
Noun
estancia (plural estancias)
A large rural estate in Latin America; a kind of ranch.
Anagrams
• Ectasian, actinase, astacein, canasite
Etymology
Proper noun
Estancia
A town, the county seat of Torrance County, New Mexico, United States.
A municipality of Iloilo, the Philippines.
Anagrams
• Ectasian, actinase, astacein, canasite
Source: Wiktionary
Es*tan"ci*a, n. Etym: [Sp. See Stanza.]
Definition: A grazing; a country house. [Spanish America]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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