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.
ROZELLE
roselle, rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa
(noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Rozelle (plural Rozelles)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Rozelle is the 18971st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1438 individuals. Rozelle is most common among White (86.3%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Zoeller
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ROOT
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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