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.
tarpaulin, tarp
(noun) waterproofed canvas
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tarpaulin (countable and uncountable, plural tarpaulins)
(countable) A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket.
(countable, slang, archaic) A sailor (often abbreviated to tar)
(uncountable, obsolete) Any heavy, waterproof material used as a cover.
(uncountable, nautical, obsolete) Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover.
A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
• In the US, tarp has been more common than tarpaulin in print since about 1990. In speech since at least 1970.
• unpartial
Source: Wiktionary
Tar*pau"lin, n. Etym: [Tar + palling a covering, pall to cover. See Pall a covering.]
1. A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.
2. A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
3. Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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.