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.
SINGLET
singlet, vest, undershirt
(noun) a collarless men’s undergarment for the upper part of the body
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
singlet (plural singlets)
(UK, Australian, Irish, Nigeria, New Zealand) A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt.
(physics) A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak.
(physics, quantum mechanics) A quantum state having zero spin.
(plurality, otherkinship) A single person occupying one human body.
Synonyms
• (garment worn underneath a shirt): undershirt, vest, wifebeater
Anagrams
• Etlings, Tingles, glisten, lingets, niglets, sniglet, tingles
Source: Wiktionary
Sin"glet, n.
Definition: An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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