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.
STOCCADO
Etymology
Noun
stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)
(obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [transl. coup d'espĂ©e] on their breast […].
Source: Wiktionary
Stoc*ca"do, n. Etym: [F. estocade, fr. Sp. estocada, or It. stoccata, from Sp. estoque, or It. stocco, a rapier, fr. G. stock a stick. See Stock.]
Definition: A stab; a thrust with a rapier. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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