plateresque (comparative more plateresque, superlative most plateresque)
Pertaining to an ornate style of architecture of 16th-century Spain suggestive of silver plate.
Plateresque (comparative more Plateresque, superlative most Plateresque)
Alternative form of plateresque
Source: Wiktionary
Plat`er*esque", a. Etym: [Sp. resco, from plata silver.] (Arch.)
Definition: Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 September 2024
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
