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.
EMBANK
embank
(verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection; “The river was embanked with a dyke”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
embank (third-person singular simple present embanks, present participle embanking, simple past and past participle embanked)
to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bank", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] Etym: [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.]
Definition: To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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