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.
REGATTA
regatta
(noun) a meeting for boat races
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
regatta (countable and uncountable, plural regattas or regatte)
(countable) A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
A striped cotton fabric.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*gat"ta (r*gt"t), n.; pl. Regattas (-t. Etym: [It. regatta, regata.]
Definition: Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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