The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
TEMSED
Verb
temsed
simple past tense and past participle of temse
Anagrams
• De Smet, destem, stemed
Source: Wiktionary
TEMSE
Temse, n. Etym: [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. Tamine.]
Definition: A sieve. [Written also tems, and tempse.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Temse bread, Temsed bread, Temse loaf, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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