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.
STOSS
Etymology
Adjective
stoss (not comparable)
(geology) Facing towards the flow of a glacier or fluid.
Used to describe one side of rôche moutonnée.
Used to describe one side of a subaerial dune or subaqueous ripple in sediment.
Antonyms
• (geology, nautical) lee
Source: Wiktionary
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