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.
GARROTTE
garrote, garotte, garrotte, iron collar
(noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag
(verb) strangle with an iron collar; “people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
garrotte (plural garrottes)
A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation.
(historical) An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
Verb
garrotte (third-person singular simple present garrottes, present participle garrotting, simple past and past participle garrotted)
(transitive) To execute by strangulation.
(transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
Anagrams
• garotter
Source: Wiktionary
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
15 May 2025
PARSIMONIOUS
(adjective) excessively unwilling to spend; “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence”
Coffee Trivia
