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.
SHISHA
hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly
(noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; “a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
shisha (countable and uncountable, plural shishas)
(countable) An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah.
Synonyms: hookah, hubbly bubbly, narghile
The tobacco smoked in such a pipe, especially as mixed with molasses and flavour extract.
Synonym: maassel
(textiles) A type of embroidery with small pieces of reflective metal attached to the fabric.
Synonym: mirrorwork
Anagrams
• Hashis, Shashi, Shiahs, shahis
Source: Wiktionary
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