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.
QUINTROONS
Noun
quintroons
plural of quintroon
Source: Wiktionary
QUINTROON
Quin*troon", n. [Sp. quinteron the off-spring of a quadroon and a white.] (Ethnol.)
Definition: The off-spring of an octoroon and a white person.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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