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‖ pousse-café|puskafe|
[F., lit. ‘push coffee’.]
A glass of various liqueurs or cordials, in successive layers, taken immediately after coffee. Also fig. (Cf. chasse-café s.v. chasse2.)
1880Harper's Mag. June 25/2 There is no easier way of solving a social problem than through the medium of a mild and fragrant cigar and a pousse-café. 1893K. A. Sanborn Truthf. Wom. in S. California 136 The old Spanish, the imported Chinese, the eastern element now thoroughly at home,..each..stratum as distinctly marked as in a pousse café, or jelly cake. 1897N.Y. Dramatic Mirror 27 Nov. 22/3 (Advt.), Weber and Fields' Music Hall..Next Burlesque, commencing Nov. 29, Pousse Cafe; or, the Worst Born. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 1 Jan. 15/1 The sophisticate who goes to the tourist traps makes the barkeep unhappy by asking for fancy things like a pousse cafe (six different liqueurs which are poured gently to avoid mixing the colors). 1959W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 72 Men and women in evening dress sip pousse-cafés. 1962E. Lanham No Hiding Place ii. 20 The sophisticated liqueurs of a pousse-café. 1965New Statesman 24 Dec. 1011/2 The other glamour-hunter's night out was the Australian Ballet's Raymonda... It's tempting to be funny about..the interior of Rank's New Victoria, a storm in a pousse-café, sinking knee-deep in ice-cream kups and sweet-wrappings. 1973Anglican Theol. Rev. (Evanston, Illinois) Sept. 35 In the position of Episcopalians in the sociological pousse-café of American life, such ecclesiastical Anglophilia was acceptable, even pleasant. 1977Time 12 Sept. 46/3 Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south. |