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.
MISCOLOUR
Etymology
Verb
miscolour (third-person singular simple present miscolours, present participle miscolouring, simple past and past participle miscoloured)
(transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
(transitive, figuratively) To set forth erroneously or unfairly.
Anagrams
• colourism
Source: Wiktionary
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