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.
SIFTERS
Noun
sifters
plural of sifter
Anagrams
• Fisters, fisters, resifts, strifes
Source: Wiktionary
SIFTER
Sift"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, sifts.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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