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.
FLENSING
Verb
flensing
present participle of flense
Noun
flensing (plural flensings)
The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber.
Source: Wiktionary
FLENSE
Flense, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen, Scot. flinch.]
Definition: To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. the flensed carcass of a fur seal. U. S. Census (1880).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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