LEOPARDSKIN

Etymology

Noun

leopardskin (countable and uncountable, plural leopardskins)

The skin of a leopard.

(uncountable, attributive) A design similar to the markings of a leopard.

Source: Wiktionary



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PLANTAIN

(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally


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Coffee Trivia

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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