The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
CHARED
Verb
chared
simple past tense and past participle of chare
Anagrams
• Echard, arched, echard, reach'd
Source: Wiktionary
CHARE
Char, Chare, v. t. Etym: [See 3d Char.]
1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.
2. To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss.
Char, Chare, v. i.
Definition: To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
Chare, n.
Definition: A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]
Chare, n. & v.
Definition: A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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