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.
UPKEEP
care, maintenance, upkeep
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”
sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeep
(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; “they were in want of sustenance”; “fishing was their main sustainment”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
upkeep (usually uncountable, plural upkeeps)
Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.
Verb
upkeep (third-person singular simple present upkeeps, present participle upkeeping, simple past and past participle upkept)
(transitive, British) To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.
Anagrams
• keep up
Source: Wiktionary
Up"keep`, n.
Definition: The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance. "Horse artillery . . . expensive in the upkeep." Scribner's Mag.
Small outlays for repairs or upkeep of buildings. A. R. Colquhoun.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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