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.
COMFIT
comfit
(noun) candy containing a fruit or nut
confect, confection, comfit
(verb) make into a confection; “This medicine is home-confected”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
comfit (plural comfits)
A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
Verb
comfit (third-person singular simple present comfits, present participle comfiting, simple past and past participle comfited)
(transitive) To preserve dry with sugar.
Etymology 2
Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
Noun
comfit (plural comfits)
(Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"fit, n. Etym: [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.]
Definition: A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Com"fit, v. t.
Definition: To preserve dry with sugar. The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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