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.
PICE
Etymology
Noun
pice (plural pice or pices)
A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
(British India) alternative spelling of paisa.
Anagrams
• ECPI, EPIC, Epic, epic
Source: Wiktionary
Pice, n. Etym: [Hind. paisa]
Definition: A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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