Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TRINGLE
Etymology
Noun
tringle (plural tringles)
A curtain rod for a bedstead.
A small moulding of rectangular cross section, in a Doric triglyph, etc.
A strip of wood at the edge of a gun platform to turn the recoil of the truck.
Anagrams
• Giltner, Tingler, ringlet, tingler
Source: Wiktionary
Trin"gle, n. Etym: [F. tringle.]
Definition: A curtain rod for a bedstead.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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