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.
LAYERINGS
Noun
layerings
plural of layering
Anagrams
• searingly, syringeal, yearlings
Source: Wiktionary
LAYERING
Lay"er*ing, n.
Definition: A propagating by layers. Gardner.
LAYER
Lay"er, n. Etym: [See Lay to cause to lie flat.]
1. One who, or that which, lays.
2. Etym: [Prob. a corruption of lair.]
Definition: That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. An artificial oyster bed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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