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.
WINDMILLS
Noun
windmills
plural of windmill
Verb
windmills
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of windmill
Source: Wiktionary
WINDMILL
Wind"mill`, n.
Definition: A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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