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.
LONGHOUSE
Etymology
Noun
longhouse (plural longhouses)
A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malays, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
(obsolete, euphemism) An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
Synonyms
• (outhouse): See bathroom
Hypernyms
• house
Hypernyms
• house
Source: Wiktionary
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19 April 2025
CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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