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.
TROMPED
Verb
tromped
simple past tense and past participle of tromp
Source: Wiktionary
TROMP
Tromp, n. Etym: [F. trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Cf. Trump a trumpet.]
Definition: A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]
Tromp, Trompe, n. Etym: [See Trump a trumpet.]
Definition: A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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