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.
RECANE
Etymology
Verb
recane (third-person singular simple present recanes, present participle recaning, simple past and past participle recaned)
(transitive) To replace the cane or rattan in (a piece of furniture).
Anagrams
• Cerean, careen, carene, crenae, enrace
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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