authoress
(noun) a woman author
Source: WordNet® 3.1
authoress (plural authoresses)
(dated) A female author.
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Source: Wiktionary
Au"thor*ess, n.
Definition: A female author. Glover.
Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 February 2025
(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
