The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
PARALLELEPIPED
parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon
(noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
parallelepiped (plural parallelepipeds)
(geometry) A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms; all opposite faces being similar and parallel.
• A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.
Hyponyms
• cuboid
Source: Wiktionary
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