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.
MELODRAME
Etymology
Noun
melodrame (countable and uncountable, plural melodrames)
Obsolete form of melodrama.
Source: Wiktionary
Mel"o*drame, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: Melodrama.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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