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.
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LAVOLTA
La*volt", La*vol"ta, n. Etym: [It.la volta the turn, turning, whirl. Cf. Volt of a horse, Volta.]
Definition: An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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