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.
OLEOMARGARINE
margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge
(noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
oleomargarine (countable and uncountable, plural oleomargarines)
(dated) margarine
Source: Wiktionary
O`le*o*mar"ga*rine, n. Etym: [L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin.] [Written also oleomargarin.]
1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.
2. An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk.
Note: Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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