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.
MATZO
matzo, matzoh, matzah, unleavened bread
(noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
matzo (countable and uncountable, plural matzos or matzot or matzoth)
(uncountable) Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
(countable) A piece of the above bread.
Anagrams
• motza
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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