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.
SOYS
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soys
plural of soy
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SOY
Soy, n. Etym: [Chinese shoyu.]
1. A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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