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.
SPORTER
Etymology
Noun
sporter (plural sporters)
Someone who sports something.
(firearms) A firearm suitable for sporting use.
(archaic) One who takes part in sport or games.
One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
Anagrams
• Trosper, perrots, porrets, porters, presort, pretors, proters, reports, tropers
Source: Wiktionary
Sport"er, n.
Definition: One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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