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.
TONGUESTERS
Noun
tonguesters
plural of tonguester
Source: Wiktionary
TONGUESTER
Tongue"ster, n.
Definition: One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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