The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
BESHROUD
Etymology
Verb
beshroud (third-person singular simple present beshrouds, present participle beshrouding, simple past and past participle beshrouded)
(transitive) To cover with or as with a shroud.
(transitive, figuratively) To hide in darkness, as with a cloak.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*shroud", v. t.
Definition: To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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