单词 | chasse-café |
释义 | > as lemmaschasse-café A draught or potion of some spirituous liquor, taken ostensibly to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, or the like. The full chasse-café is now less used. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > taken after coffee chasse1801 pousse-café1862 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. iii. 107 She ordered coffee, and afterward chasse-cafè. 1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) 25 For the digester itself is digested by a liqueur..called a chasse-café (coffee-chaser). 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone vii So one glass of cognac neat, as a chasse (to more things than good claret). 1866 G. A. Sala Trip to Barbary xv. 298 Tourists..who breakfast in the Valley are in the habit of..‘potting’ the monkeys by way of a chasse-café. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. vi. 205 The coffee and chasse followed. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Feb. 3/2. < as lemmas |
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