VIRGULES

Noun

virgules

plural of virgule

Source: Wiktionary


VIRGULE

Vir"gule, n. Etym: [F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of virga. See Verge a rod.]

Definition: A comma. [R.] In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a cæsura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule. Hallam.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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