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.
LUNGIES
Noun
lungies
plural of lungie
Anagrams
• slueing
Source: Wiktionary
LUNGIE
Lun"gie, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A guillemot. [Written also longie.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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