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.
RHABDUS
Etymology
Noun
rhabdus (plural rhabdi)
A simple, straight spicule.
Anagrams
• burdash
Source: Wiktionary
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LOITER
(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
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