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.
RETILE
Etymology
Verb
retile (third-person singular simple present retiles, present participle retiling, simple past and past participle retiled)
(transitive) To tile again; to replace with new tiles
Anagrams
• Etiler, eliter, treile
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