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.
PALMER
Palmer, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Daniel Palmer
(noun) United States golfer (born in 1929)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
palmer (plural palmers)
(now, historical) A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary.
(archaic) Abbreviation of palmerworm.
Etymology 2
Noun
palmer (plural palmers)
A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.
Etymology 3
Noun
palmer (plural palmers)
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Anagrams
• LaPerm, Marple, ampler, lamper, relamp, repalm
Etymology
Proper noun
Palmer
An English surname.
A city, the borough seat of Matanuska-Susitna Borough borough, Alaska, United States.
A male given name.
Anagrams
• LaPerm, Marple, ampler, lamper, relamp, repalm
Source: Wiktionary
Palm"er, n. Etym: [From Palm, v. t.]
Definition: One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Palm"er, n.Etym: [From Palm the tree.]
Definition: A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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