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.
OVERSAIL
Etymology
Verb
oversail (third-person singular simple present oversails, present participle oversailing, simple past and past participle oversailed)
(transitive, architecture) To figure or variegate.
(law) To project over (as of a crane over a neighbouring property, which may be a trespass)
Anagrams
• Alverios, Levarios, Olivares, Oliveras, valorise, varioles, volaries
Source: Wiktionary
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SUNGLASSES
(noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; “he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades”
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