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.
LANUGO
lanugo
(noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)
Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
Anagrams
• Angulo, Lugano
Source: Wiktionary
La*nu"go, n. Etym: [See Lanuginose.] (Anat.)
Definition: The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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