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.
SHEEPWALK
sheepwalk, sheeprun
(noun) farm devoted to raising sheep
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sheepwalk (plural sheepwalks)
Land given to pasturing of sheep, smaller than a sheep-run.
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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