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.
TUBFISH
Noun
tubfish (plural tubfish)
(UK, dialect) The sapphirine gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna).
Source: Wiktionary
Tub"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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