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.
SCALETAIL
Etymology
Noun
scaletail (plural scaletails)
Any of the scaly-tailed species of flying squirrel, especially the flightless Zenkerella insignis
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REJECT
(verb) refuse to accept or acknowledge; “I reject the idea of starting a war”; “The journal rejected the student’s paper”
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