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.
KNOTWORK
Etymology
Noun
knotwork (countable and uncountable, plural knotworks)
A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot
Work involving the tying of knots.
An object composed of or using knots.
Source: Wiktionary
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LIBERTY
(noun) freedom of choice; “liberty of opinion”; “liberty of worship”; “liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases”; “at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes”
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