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.
KEYNOTES
Noun
keynotes
plural of keynote
Anagrams
• Keystone, keystone, keytones
Source: Wiktionary
KEYNOTE
Key"note`, n.
1. (Mus.)
Definition: The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.
2. The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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