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.
OSTINATO
ostinato
(noun) a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ostinato (plural ostinatos or ostinati)
(music) A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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