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.
PARALLELOPIPED
parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon
(noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
parallelopiped (plural parallelopipeds)
Alternative form of parallelepiped
Source: Wiktionary
Par`al*lel`o*pi"ped, n. Etym: [Gr. parallélopipède.] (Geom.)
Definition: A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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