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2. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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   Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

3. List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

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   BB Counter – Marine whose duties are the handling, storage, issue of ordnance. [13] BCD – Bad Conduct Discharge; also known as Big Chicken Dinner. BCGs or BCs – Birth Control Goggles or Boot Camp Glasses: military issue glasses worn at recruit training; so called because they make the wearer too ugly to engage in sexual relations.

4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   a chest of drawers, usu. with a looking glass (UK: dressing-table) drop (of liquid) several (fluid) ounces ("just a drop of tea, please") (meiotic usage) droplet (less than a milliliter) duck a score of zero by a batsman in cricket, supposedly derived from the zero-like shape of a duck's egg. Hence to "break one's duck": to score one's first ...

5. Petit Trianon - Wikipedia

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   There is a large sofa by Tours [note 36] and a built-in table by Riesener. Coffee was fashionable at the court of Versailles; the King himself roasted the few pounds harvested in his experimental garden at Trianon and prepared his favorite drink in person, which he shared with his family, [134] gazing at the greenhouses of his botanical garden ...

6. Quercus petraea - Wikipedia

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   Quercus petraea, commonly known as the sessile oak, [3] Cornish oak, [4] Irish oak or durmast oak, [5] is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. ...