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.
VIRELAYS
Noun
virelays
plural of virelay
Anagrams
• liverays
Source: Wiktionary
VIRELAY
Vir"e*lay, n. Etym: [F. virelai; virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.]
Definition: An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain. Of such matter made he many lays, Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes. Chaucer. To which a lady sung a virelay. Dryden.
Note: "The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other." Nares.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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