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.
MACEDONIA
Macedon, Macedonia, Makedonija
(noun) the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria
Macedonia
(noun) landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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(noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)
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