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.
GARBURE
Etymology
Noun
garbure (countable and uncountable, plural garbures)
A thick French stew of ham with cabbage and other vegetables and usually cheese and stale bread.
Anagrams
• Burrage
Source: Wiktionary
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1 June 2025
BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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