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.
STRINES
Proper noun
Strines
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ9786). Its railway station was formerly in Derbyshire.
Anagrams
• Inserts, Stiners, estrins, inserts, sestrin, sinters, sistern, sistren
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PARADE
(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; “a parade of strollers on the mall”; “a parade of witnesses”
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