The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
TERTIANS
Noun
tertians
plural of tertian
Anagrams
• intraset, intreats, nitrates, rantiest, straiten, tainters, tartines, train set, trainest, trainset
Source: Wiktionary
TERTIAN
Ter"tian, a. Etym: [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce.] (Med.)
Definition: Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
Ter"tian, n. Etym: [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.]
1. (Med.)
Definition: A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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