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.
SLATER
woodlouse, wood louse, slater
(noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
slater (plural slaters)
One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
Anagrams
• Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse
Etymology
Proper noun
Slater
A surname.
A city in Iowa.
A city in Missouri.
A census-designated place in Wyoming.
Anagrams
• Salter, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse
Source: Wiktionary
Slat"er, n.
Definition: One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
Slat"er, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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