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.
COLORATION
coloration, colouration
(noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist)
coloration, colouration
(noun) appearance with regard to color; “her healthy coloration”
color, colour, coloration, colouration
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound; “the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coloration (countable and uncountable, plural colorations)
The act or art of coloring.
The quality of being colored.
(music) A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or
(music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes".
Source: Wiktionary
Col`or*a"tion, n.
Definition: The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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