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.
HOSTEL
hostel, youth hostel, student lodging
(noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge
(noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hostel (plural hostels)
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
(obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Synonyms
• See also lodging place
Verb
hostel (third-person singular simple present hostels, present participle hostelling or hosteling, simple past and past participle hostelled or hosteled)
to stay in a hostel as part of a travel
Anagrams
• Holtes, Lhotse, Tholes, helots, hotels, hĂ´tels, loseth, shotel, tholes
Source: Wiktionary
Hos"tel, n. Etym: [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.]
1. An inn. [Archaic] Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.
2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
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