The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
SOLACEMENT
consolation, solace, solacement
(noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; “second place was no consolation to him”
solace, solacement
(noun) comfort in disappointment or misery
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
solacement (countable and uncountable, plural solacements)
solace; consolation.
Anagrams
• clonemates
Source: Wiktionary
Sol"ace*ment, n.
Definition: The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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