The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
FLAGRANCY
Noun
flagrancy (countable and uncountable, plural flagrancies)
The condition of being flagrant.
Source: Wiktionary
Fla"gran*cy, n.; pl. Flagrancies. Etym: [L. flagrantia a burning. See Flagrant.]
1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.
2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. Steele.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PUNGENCY
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