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.
FUST
Etymology 1
Noun
fust (plural fusts)
A strong musty smell; mustiness.
(architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.
Verb
fust (third-person singular simple present fusts, present participle fusting, simple past and past participle fusted)
(intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
(intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.
Etymology 2
Noun
fust (plural fusts)
(watercraft, historical) A type of small galley.
Etymology 3
Adjective
fust (not comparable)
Nonstandard form of first.
Adverb
fust (not comparable)
Nonstandard form of first.
Anagrams
• STFU, UTFs
Source: Wiktionary
Fust, n. Etym: [OF. fust, F. f, fr. L. fustis stick staff.] (Arch.)
Definition: The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.
Fust, n. Etym: [OF. fust cask, F. f cask, taste or smell of the caak, fustiness, cf. sentir le f to taste of the cask. See 1st Fust.]
Definition: A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
Fust, v. i.
Definition: To become moldy; to smell ill. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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