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.
TARABISH
Etymology
Noun
tarabish (uncountable)
A trick-taking card game spread throughout the British Empire by Scottish soldiers; still played in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Lebanon and Afghanistan.
Anagrams
• air baths, air-baths, airbaths, tabashir
Source: Wiktionary
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