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.
STROUDING
Etymology
Noun
strouding (countable and uncountable, plural stroudings)
Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth formerly used in trade between the Europeans and the Native Americans.
Source: Wiktionary
Stroud"ing, n.
Definition: Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.
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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