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.
RENNES
Etymology
Proper noun
Rennes
The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; capital city of the region of Brittany.
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Source: Wiktionary
RENNE
Ren"ne (rn"ne), v. t.
Definition: To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ren"ne, v. i.
Definition: To run. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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