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.
PEKIN
Proper noun
Pekin
Obsolete form of Peking.
A city, the county seat of Tazewell County, Illinois.
A hamlet in New York.
A city and village in North Dakota.
Noun
Pekin (countable and uncountable, plural Pekins)
A type of patterned silk.
Anagrams
• Knipe
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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