voussoir
(noun) wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault
Source: WordNet® 3.1
voussoir (plural voussoirs)
(architecture) One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
Source: Wiktionary
Vous`soir", n. Etym: [F., akin to voûte an arch, a vault.] (Arch.)
Definition: One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
