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.
BASKETS
Noun
baskets
plural of basket
Verb
baskets
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of basket
Source: Wiktionary
BASKET
Bas"ket, n. Etym: [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.]
1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.
2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
3. (Arch.)
Definition: The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] Gwilt.
4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton.
– Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a.
– Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.
– Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeræformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.
Bas"ket, v. t.
Definition: To put into a basket. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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