RIDERLESS

Etymology

Adjective

riderless (not comparable)

Without or deprived of a rider.

[…] the spectacle of Rob the Grinder returning down the street, leading the riderless horse, appeared to have some extraneous interest […]

Source: Wiktionary


Rid"er*less, a.

Definition: Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SHTIK

(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”


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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.

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