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.
GRADINS
Noun
gradins
plural of gradin
Anagrams
• Dargins, Gardins, darings, sarding
Source: Wiktionary
GRADIN
Gra"din, Gra*dine", n. Etym: [F. gradin, dim. of grade. See Grade.] (Arch.)
Definition: Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. "The gradines of the amphitheeater." Layard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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