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.
PLICATE
pleat, plicate
(verb) fold into pleats; “Pleat the cloth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
plicate (comparative more plicate, superlative most plicate)
(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.
Synonyms
• (folded): corrugated, folded, plicated
Verb
plicate (third-person singular simple present plicates, present participle plicating, simple past and past participle plicated)
(chiefly biology) To fold or pleat (usually used in passive).
Source: Wiktionary
Pli"cate, Pli"ca*ted, a. Etym: [L. plicatus, p. p. of plicare to fold.]
Definition: Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.
– Pli"cate*ly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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