The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
BURNSIDE
sideburn, burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers
(noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man’s face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)
Burnside, A. E. Burnside, Ambrose Everett Burnside
(noun) United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Burnside
Any of various towns in Scotland, or elsewhere in the Anglo-Saxon world, named after the Scottish ones.
A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
An industrial suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.
A topographic surname for someone living near a burn (stream), or in any of the Scottish towns.
Anagrams
• Burdines, Rubenids, sideburn
Etymology
From Ambrose Burnside
Noun
burnside (plural burnsides)
(especially in plural) A moustache, with whiskers on the cheeks but with no beard on the chin
Usage notes
This was later reformed as sideburn, see there.
Anagrams
• Burdines, Rubenids, sideburn
Source: Wiktionary
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BREAK
(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
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