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.
TABLOID
tabloid, rag, sheet
(noun) newspaper with half-size pages
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tabloid (plural tabloids)
(publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format.
(publishing) A newspaper, especially one in this format, that favours stories of a sensational or even fictitious nature over serious news.
(medicine, dated) A compressed portion of drugs, chemicals, etc.; a tablet.
Synonyms
• scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow press
Antonyms
• broadsheet
Adjective
tabloid (not comparable)
In the format of a tabloid.
Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
Source: Wiktionary
Tab"loid, n. [A table-mark.]
Definition: A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
Tab"loid, a.
Definition: Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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