The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
TUMESCE
swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
(verb) expand abnormally; “The bellies of the starving children are swelling”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
tumesce (third-person singular simple present tumesces, present participle tumescing, simple past and past participle tumesced)
(intransitive) To become tumescent; to expand or inflate.
Source: Wiktionary
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SQUARE
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
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