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.
INVERNESS
Etymology
Proper noun
Inverness
A city in and the administrative centre of Highland council area, Scotland.
A rural locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
A rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
A municipality of Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada.
A suburb, Stockholm, Sweden.
An unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama.
A former census-designated place and neighborhood in Hoover, Shelby County, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marin County, California.
A census-designated place in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
A city, the county seat of Citrus County, Florida, United States.
A suburban village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
An unincorporated community in Steuben County, Indiana.
A town in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
A census-designated place in Hill County, Montana.
Noun
Inverness (plural Invernesses)
A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.
A variation of this coat, the "coachman's cape": the shoulder cape does not extend around the back but is made of two segments, the length of each being sewn into the seam of the coat on either side.
Anagrams
• nerviness, rivenness
Source: Wiktionary
In`ver*ness", n., or In`ver*ness" cape".
Definition: A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.
Robert's wind-blown head and tall form wrapped in an Inverness cape. Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPIRITEDLY
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
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