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.
TARBOOSH
fez, tarboosh
(noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tarboosh (plural tarbooshes)
A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.
Source: Wiktionary
Tar*boosh", n. Etym: [Ar. tarb; perhaps from Per. sar-posh headdress: cf. F. tarbouch.]
Definition: A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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