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.
SHAGS
Noun
shags
plural of shag
Source: Wiktionary
SHAG
Shag, n. Etym: [AS. sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg the beard, Sw. skägg, Dan. skj. Cf. Schock of hair.]
1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.
2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
3. (Com.)
Definition: A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any species of cormorant.
Shag, a.
Definition: Hairy; shaggy. Shak.
Shag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Shagging.]
Definition: To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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