According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
APPURTENANCE
accessory, appurtenance, supplement, add-on
(noun) a supplementary component that improves capability
gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance
(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
appurtenance (plural appurtenances)
An appendage to something else; an addition.
(in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
The thing to which another pertains.
(legal) Minor property, such as an outhouse, that passes with the main property when it is sold.
(grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
Synonyms
• contenement
Source: Wiktionary
Ap*pur"te*nance, n. Etym: [OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.]
Definition: That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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