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.
PIEBALD
motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
(adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; “a jester dressed in motley”; “the painted desert”; “a particolored dress”; “a piebald horse”; “pied daisies”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
piebald (comparative more piebald, superlative most piebald)
(also used figuratively) Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
(figuratively) Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
Coordinate terms
• variegated
Noun
piebald (plural piebalds)
An animal with piebald coloration.
Anagrams
• bipedal
Source: Wiktionary
Pie"bald`, a. Etym: [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]
1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." Dryden.
2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." Hudibras.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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