The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
monarchs
plural of monarch
• Romansch, chromans, nomarchs
Source: Wiktionary
Mon"arch, n. Etym: [F. monarque, L. monarcha, fr. Gr. Archi-.]
1. A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.
2. One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.
3. A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus. Shak.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
Mon"arch, a.
Definition: Superior to others; preëminent; supreme; ruling. "Monarch savage." Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.