The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
El"enge, a. Etym: [Cf. AS. ellende foreign, strange, G. elend miserable.]
Definition: Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.