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.
JETTIES
Noun
jetties
plural of jetty
Source: Wiktionary
JETTY
Jet"ty, a.
Definition: Made of jet, or like jet in color. The people . . . are of a jetty. Sir T. Browne.
Jet"ty, n.; pl. Jetties. Etym: [F.jetée a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Jutty.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
3. (Hydraul. Engin.)
Definition: A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Jetty ad (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.
Jet"ty, v. i.
Definition: To jut out; to project. [Obs.] Florio.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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