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.
HAIRBREADTHS
Noun
hairbreadths
plural of hairbreadth
Anagrams
• hair's breadth, hairsbreadth
Source: Wiktionary
HAIRBREADTH
Hair"breadth`, Hair's"breadth`, a.
Definition: The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16
Hair"breadth`, a.
Definition: Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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