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.
NOYADE
Etymology
Noun
noyade (plural noyades)
(chiefly historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
Verb
noyade (third-person singular simple present noyades, present participle noyading, simple past and past participle noyaded)
(chiefly historical) To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
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• day one, one day, one-day
Source: Wiktionary
No`yade", n. [F., fr. noyer to drown, L. necare to kill.]
Definition: A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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