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.
SIXTEENS
Noun
sixteens
plural of sixteen
Source: Wiktionary
SIXTEEN
Six"teen`, a. Etym: [AS. sixt, sixt. See Six, and Ten, and cf. Sixty.]
Definition: Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
Six"teen`, n.
1. The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
2. A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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