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.
FEME
Etymology
Noun
feme (plural femes)
(legal, historical) A woman.
Anagrams
• meef
Source: Wiktionary
Feme ( or ), n. Etym: [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old Law)
Definition: A woman. Burrill. Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3.
– Feme sole (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead.
– Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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