scarcement (plural scarcements)
(architecture, engineering) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc, retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
• marcescent
Source: Wiktionary
Scarce"ment, n. (Arch. & Engin.)
Definition: An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 January 2025
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; “they run things by the book around here”
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.
