Harrod, Charles Henry Harrod
(noun) English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)
Harrod, Charles Digby Harrod
(noun) English merchant who expanded his father’s shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
