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.
LAPPET
lappet, lappet moth
(noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars
lappet
(noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress
wattle, lappet
(noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lappet (plural lappets)
A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
(zoology) A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.
A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
(obsolete, anatomy) Lobe (division of an organ).
Verb
lappet (third-person singular simple present lappets, present participle lappeting, simple past and past participle lappeted)
(transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.
Anagrams
• P-plate, applet
Source: Wiktionary
Lap"pet, n. Etym: [Dim. of lap a fold.]
Definition: A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Swift. Lappet moth (Zoöl.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.
Lap"pet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lappeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lappeting.]
Definition: To decorate with, or as with, a lappet. [R.] Landor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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