According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
PLASTRONS
Noun
plastrons
plural of plastron
Source: Wiktionary
PLASTRON
Plas"tron, n. Etym: [F. plastron breastplate, plastron, LL. plastra a thin plate of metal. See Plaster.]
1. A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. Dryden.
3. (Anc. Armor)
Definition: An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.
3. (Anat.)
Definition: The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.
4. A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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