The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
BARNWOOD
Etymology
Noun
barnwood (plural barnwoods)
wood used to build a barn
aged or weathered wood, especially from a dismantled barn
Proper noun
Barnwood
A suburb of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8518).
Source: Wiktionary
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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