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.
TENTAGE
Etymology
Noun
tentage (countable and uncountable, plural tentages)
accommodation in the form of a tent
Source: Wiktionary
Tent"age, n. Etym: [From Tent a pavilion.]
Definition: A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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