The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
MINGLED
Verb
mingled
simple past tense and past participle of mingle
Anagrams
• melding
Source: Wiktionary
MINGLE
Min"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling.] Etym: [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.]
1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24.
2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2.
3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.
4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] Shak.
5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.
Min"gle, v. i.
Definition: To become mixed or blended.
Min"gle, n.
Definition: A mixture. [Obs.] Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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