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.
RASURE
Etymology
Noun
rasure (countable and uncountable, plural rasures)
(now rare, legal) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
(now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
(obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
Anagrams
• Urreas
Source: Wiktionary
Ra"sure, n. Etym: [L. rasura, fr. radere, rasum, to scrape, to shave. See Rase, v.]
1. The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
2. A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
25 April 2024
TYPIFY
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
Coffee Trivia
