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.
GLEDE
Etymology 1
Noun
glede (plural gledes)
A live coal, an ember or molten metallic bead such that skids or slides across a cooler surface.
Etymology 2
Noun
glede (plural gledes)
Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
Anagrams
• degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged
Source: Wiktionary
Glede, n. Etym: [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle,, Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
Glede, n. Etym: [See Gleed.]
Definition: A live coal. [Archaic] The cruel ire, red as any glede. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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