The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
MANDYLION
Etymology
Noun
mandylion (countable and uncountable, plural mandylions)
(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) often Mandylion: the Image of Edessa, a holy relic consisting of a piece of cloth upon which an image of the face of Jesus Christ had been miraculously imprinted without human intervention (that is, an acheiropoieton); an artistic depiction of this relic.
Synonyms
• Image of Edessa
Coordinate terms
• veronica (image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which Saint Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified)
Proper noun
Mandylion
Alternative letter-case form of mandylion.
Source: Wiktionary
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LEAVE
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
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