SHIRTTAIL

shirttail

(noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt

shirttail

(noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

shirttail (plural shirttails)

The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.

(by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.

A tenuous connection.

A distant kinship.

A small portion

Something small and unimportant.

Hypernyms

• tail (figurative)

Source: Wiktionary



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INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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