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.
VOIDER
voider, gusset
(noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate
defecator, voider, shitter
(noun) a person who defecates
invalidator, voider, nullifier
(noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify; “my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
voider (plural voiders)
One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
A tray or basket formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
(historical) A contrivance in armour for covering an unprotected part of the body.
(historical, rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
Anagrams
• devoir
Source: Wiktionary
Void"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, voids,
2. A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider. Decker. The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head. Hist. of Richard Hainam.
3. A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal. [R.] Decker.
4. (Her.)
Definition: One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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