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.
TIDDLEDYWINKS
Noun
tiddledywinks (uncountable)
Alternative form of tiddlywinks
Noun
tiddledywinks
plural of tiddledywink
Source: Wiktionary
Tid"dle*dy*winks`, n.
Definition: A game in which the object is to snap small disks of bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks. [U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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