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.
MARTINETS
Noun
martinets
plural of martinet
Anagrams
• stream tin, tarentism
Source: Wiktionary
MARTINET
Mar"ti*net`, n. Etym: [So called from an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the bird, Martlet.]
Definition: In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]
Mar"ti*net`, n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The martin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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