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.
SCRIPTORIUM
scriptorium
(noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)
(countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
Source: Wiktionary
Scrip*to"ri*um, n.; pl. Scriptoria. Etym: [LL. See Scriptory.]
Definition: In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. J. R. Green.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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