Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
MACHE
Etymology 1
Noun
mache
Alternative spelling of mĆ¢che
Etymology 2
Noun
mache
(dated) A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.
Etymology 3
Noun
mache
(Philippines) Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan.
Anagrams
• Cheam, meach, mecha
Proper noun
Mache
A district of Otuzco province, Peru.
A river that enters the Pacific in the north of Ecuador.
Anagrams
• Cheam, meach, mecha
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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