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.
EXOTICIZE
Etymology
Verb
exoticize (third-person singular simple present exoticizes, present participle exoticizing, simple past and past participle exoticized)
(transitive) To make (something banal) seem to be exotic.
Source: Wiktionary
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