The expression ācoffee breakā was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
CONSILIENCES
Noun
consiliences
plural of consilience
Source: Wiktionary
CONSILIENCE
Con*sil"i*ence, n. Etym: [con- + salire to leap.]
Definition: Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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