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.
FROS
Noun
fros
plural of fro
Anagrams
• ORFs, SFor, orfs, sORF
Source: Wiktionary
FRO
Fro, adv. Etym: [OE. fra, fro, adv. & prep., Icel. fr, akin to Dan. fra from, E. from. See From.]
Definition: From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in oppositionto the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To. Millon.
Fro, prep.
Definition: From. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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