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.
URNFIELD
Etymology
Noun
urnfield (plural urnfields)
Ground used as a cemetery in Bronze Age Europe, in which the ashs of cremations were buried in cinerary urns.
Anagrams
• furlined, unrifled
Source: Wiktionary
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22 February 2025
ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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