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.
PORTOBELLO
Proper noun
Portobello
An area in Birtley, the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2755).
A suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9597).
A coastal suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3073).
A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
A village on Otago Harbour in South Island, New Zealand.
Etymology
Noun
portobello (plural portobellos)
The large, mature form of the crimini mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
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COMMISERATIVE
(adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy; “made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue”- Kenneth Roberts
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