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.
SHARDS
Noun
shards
plural of shard
Verb
shards
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shard
Source: Wiktionary
SHARD
Shard, n.
Definition: A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden.
Shard, n. Etym: [AS. sceard, properly a p. p. from the root of scearn to shear, to cut; akin to D. schaard a fragment, G. scharte a notch, Icel. skar. See Shear, and cf. Sherd.] [Written also sheard, and sherd.]
1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. E. Arnold.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The hard wing case of a beetle. They are his shards, and he their beetle. Shak.
3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] Stanyhurst.
4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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