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.
YARDAGE
yardage
(noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards; “what is the yardage of this golf course?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
yardage (plural yardages)
An amount or length measured in yards.
The use of a yard, or the fee charged for it.
(American football) Territory.
Anagrams
• day-ager, drayage
Source: Wiktionary
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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