PORTOBELLO

Proper noun

Portobello

An area in Birtley, the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2755).

A suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9597).

A coastal suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3073).

A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

A village on Otago Harbour in South Island, New Zealand.

Etymology

Noun

portobello (plural portobellos)

The large, mature form of the crimini mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)

Source: Wiktionary



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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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