The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
FOREBODER
Etymology
Noun
foreboder (plural foreboders)
(archaic) an oracle; one who tells the future.
(uncountable) Something that implies the imminent occurrence of another event.
The cold was a foreboder of the nightmares of the winter that lay ahead.
Source: Wiktionary
Fore*bod"er, n.
Definition: One who forebodes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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