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.
TRESSED
Etymology
Adjective
tressed (not comparable)
Having tresses.
Formed into ringlets or braided.
Anagrams
• deserts, dessert
Source: Wiktionary
Tressed, a.
1. Having tresses.
2. Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. Spenser. Drayton.
TRESS
Tress, n. Etym: [OE. tresse, OF. trece, F. tresse, LL. tricia, fr. Gr. tri`cha threefold, because a tress is usually formed by interlacing three pieces; akin to trei^s three. See Three.]
1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress. Chaucer. Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. Pope.
2. Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers. Keats.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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