cafén.

Brit.

/ˈkafeɪ/, U.S.

/kæˈfeɪ/

Forms: Also vulgarly or jocularly pronounced

/keɪf/ or

/kæf/, and written in the form cafe; cf. caff n.

Etymology: < French café coffee, coffee-house.

A coffee-house, a restaurant; strictly a French term, but in the late 19th cent. introduced into the English-speaking countries for the name of a class of restaurant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > café or tearoom

tearoom1733

café1802

tea-garden1802

estaminet1814

cafeteria1839

coffee palace1879

coffee parlour1894

zinc1914

caff1931

pull-in1938

transport café1938

pantry1948

relais1957

kayf1962

izakaya1987

1789 A. Young Jrnl. 5 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 179 I breakfasted at the Café d' Acajon.]

1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 73 All the Cafés are out of doors.

1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. xliii A rushing whisper over Paris, encreasing to a buzz in the Cafés.

1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 389 Cafés and clubs roared incessantly.

1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel (1963) xvi. 151 In the corners of the saloon, up and down the stairs, were cafés and refreshment bars.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 150 He wrote it as well as he knew how, and then went in disguise to the café of the critics.

1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 85 The cafés are crowded with backgammon players.

1906 A. Bennett Whom God hath Joined i. 5 Workshops, theatres, concerts, cafés, pawnshops.

1929 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXII. 374 If popular tea-shops paint their title of cafe over their doors the word will be pronounced like chafe and safe.

1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night i. 15 At St. Albans a lorry-driver was sitting hunched up at the counter of a transport café.

1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 71 ‘There's the café’ (she pronounced it caif).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

café-bar n.

ΚΠ

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 641/3 In the other wing is a café-bar.

café-habit n.

ΚΠ

1910 Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 4/4 Any slight modification in the national temperament which the café habit might..bring.

café-haunter n.

ΚΠ

1951 Mind 60 331 It is the café-haunters, the preachers, the metaphysicians and the calendar-makers who talk of beauty.

café-restaurant n.

ΚΠ

1926 ‘C. Barry’ Detective's Holiday iv. 40 The café-restaurant which the forester had called the canteen.

café-window n.

ΚΠ

1907 W. O. Lillibridge Where Trail Divides 56 A complexion prairie wind had made like a lobster display in a café window.

café-haunting n.

ΚΠ

1866 M. Arnold Friendship's Garland (1871) 167 I do not wish them [sc. my countrymen] to be the café-haunting, dominoes-playing Frenchmen.

C2.

café chantant n.

/kaˌfeɪ ʃɒ̃ˈtɒ̃/ [lit. ‘singing café’] a café in which the customers are entertained by singers or other music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > nightclub

finish1796

café chantant1854

nightclub1871

bottle party1903

lokal1903

cabaret1912

boîte1922

supper club1927

nitery1929

hot spot1930

spot1930

clip-joint1933

nightspot1936

night box1938

Nachtlokal1939

partouze1959

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > with entertainment

café chantant1854

night box1938

theatre-restaurant1958

1854 B. St. John Purple Tints Paris II. iii. 67 Go out to the Luxembourg, to a café chantant,..or to the country.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 164 Leicester Square..with..the monster cafés chantants.

1896 Mrs. H. Ward Sir George Tressady xvi I suppose you don't go to cafés chantants?

1908 Westm. Gaz. 18 June 1/3 The humbler rôle of café-chantant artist.

1968 Times 13 Nov. 10/4 Downstairs in the same new establishment there is a café-chantant.

café concert n. a musical or variety concert given in a café; also = café chantant n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of

Philharmonic concert1740

benefit-concert1759

chamber concert1760

recital1762

Dutch concert1774

concert performance1777

philharmonica1796

musical soirée1821

sacred concert1832

soirée musicale1836

promenade concert1839

pianoforte recital1840

ballad concert1855

piano recital1855

Monday pop1862

Pop1862

promenade1864

popular1865

Schubertiad1869

recitative1873

organ recital1877

pop concert1880

smoker1887

smoke concert1888

café concert1891

prom1902

smoke-ho1918

smoking-concert1934

hootenanny1940

opry1940

Liederabend1958

1891 Harper's Mag. Dec. 49/2 A café concert over in the Bowery.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 197 Chabrier's..tunes, though evocative of the café-concert are in no way pastiches of café-concert tunes.

café society n. originally U.S. a group of people who frequent fashionable restaurants, night-clubs, and resorts: also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]

higheOE

high life?a1518

towna1616

world1618

grand monde1673

society1693

beau monde1712

fine world1740

monde1765

tonc1770

high society1782

fashion1807

all the world1808

society1840

smart set1851

swelldom1854

Fifth Avenue1858

fashionabledom1859

haut monde1864

the big cheesea1910

higlif1911

haute Bohème1925

café society1937

jet set1949

beautiful people1950

1937 Fortune Dec. 123 A blending of old socialites and new celebrities called Café Society.

1952 Time 8 Sept. 4/2 All the other café society playboys and playgirls.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 May 250/5 His Jewish birth militated against his admission to what would now be called café society.

C3. In French phrases, with the sense ‘coffee’.

café au lait n. coffee taken with milk; white coffee; also, the colour of café au lait, a brownish cream colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream

milk coffeec1695

café au lait1763

mélange1838

caffè latte1847

sergeant-major1923

café crème1936

cappuccino1948

mochaccino1963

flat white1971

latte macchiato1976

cortado1985

caffè macchiato1988

latte1989

skinny1992

the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > light brown

dust-colour1607

milk chocolate1723

café au lait1763

whitey-brown1858

biscuit1879

rachel1880

bisque1891

lobster bisque1895

toast-colour1898

parchment1904

toast1922

suntan1923

milk coffee1972

1763 H. Walpole Let. 18 Oct. (1904) V. 382 Pray send me some café au lait: the Duc de Picquigny..takes it for snuff.

1823 J. Griscom Year in Europe II. 32 We..refreshed ourselves..with an excellent cup of caffè [sic] au lait.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 420 Red with yellow, produces orange... To this shade may be referred flame colour,..café au lait,..marigold.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 19 Milk-women..selling the chief material of the Parisian café-au-lait.

1893 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 394/2 The faintest tinge of café au lait with a dash of yellow in it.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 12/3 Café-au-lait brocade.

café complet n. (see quot. 1966).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks

nuncheonc1260

morsela1382

refection?a1439

mixtumc1490

bever1500

banquet1509

collation1525

snatch1570

beverage1577

a little something1577

anders-meat1598

four-hours1637

watering1637

refreshment1639

snap1642

luncheona1652

crib1652

prandicle1656

munchin1657

baita1661

unch1663

afternooning1678

whet1688

nacket1694

merenda1740

rinfresco1745

bagging?1746

snack1757

coffee1774

second breakfast1775

nummit1777

stay-stomach1800

damper1804

eleven o'clock1805

noonshine1808

by-bit1819

morning1819

four1823

four o'clock1825

lunch1829

stay-bit1833

picnic meal1839

elevens1849

Tommy1864

picnic tea1869

dinnerette1872

merienda1880

elevenses1887

light bite1887

soldier's supper1893

mug-up1902

tray1914

café complet1933

nosha1941

namkeen1942

snax1947

snackette1952

chaat1954

ploughman's lunch1957

munchie1959

playlunch1960

short-eat1962

lite bite1965

munchie1971

ploughman1975

aperitivo2002

the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with food

café complet1933

1933 E. Blunden & S. Norman We'll shift our Ground 120 These trays of frippery called cafés complets, with their couple of doughy croissants embracing in a teacup.

1937 M. V. Hughes London Home in Nineties viii. 137 Our breakfast consisted of café complet. I made it as ‘complet’ as I could, but was ravenous by midday.

1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide 31 Café complet, or, more accurately, café au lait complet means coffee with milk and lumps of sugar accompanied by bread or rolls and butter; sometimes jam is included.

café crème n. coffee with cream.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream

milk coffeec1695

café au lait1763

mélange1838

caffè latte1847

sergeant-major1923

café crème1936

cappuccino1948

mochaccino1963

flat white1971

latte macchiato1976

cortado1985

caffè macchiato1988

latte1989

skinny1992

1936 C. Connolly Rock Pool viii. 203 A hundred café crèmes steamed on the marble tables.

1966 C. Bush Case of Good Employer x. 99 I asked for a large café crême.

café-filtre n. (a cup of) coffee made by filtering boiling water through coffee; cf. filtre n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee by type of preparation

real coffee1877

drip coffee1895

cowboy coffee1915

café-filtre1922

caffè espresso1933

perc1936

Nescafé1938

espresso1945

instant1954

Nescaff1962

cafe Americano1964

filtre1966

Nes1967

Americano1973

espresso macchiato1976

caffè ristretto1977

ristretto1980

espresso ristretto1983

half-caf1990

1922 W. H. Ukers All about Coffee xxxv. 675/1 Gatti's, where café filtré, or coffee produced by the filtration method, is a specialty; the cosmopolitan Savoy.

1958 M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting xvii. 252 A café-filtre, if you please.

1965 P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise vii. 79 He set out two large cups and the perforated metal containers for making café filtre.

café noir n. black coffee, i.e. coffee without milk.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > black coffee

black coffee1796

café noir1845

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxvii. 648 For the café noir served after dinner in all French families put less water.

1863 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. (new ed.) 879 Cafe noir.

1898 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 255 The widow brought our café noir to us after dinner.

1914 Daily Express 29 Sept. 2/7 Men the colour of ebony, café noir, café au lait.

Draft additions September 2013

South African. A small, local shop selling newspapers, confectionery, groceries, etc.; a convenience store.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local

convenience store1902

duka1912

dairy1914

sari-sari store1925

café1957

corner shop1963

neighbourhood friendly1970

depanneur1975

kirana1979

1957 B. O'Keefe Gold without Glitter 79 Number Twelve set off on the sixteen mile journey..with as little concern as the city dweller when he strolls down to the corner café to buy a packet of cigarettes.

1974 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 3 Nov. (Colour Mag.) 3/1 The local cafe is the same throughout South Africa—a cluster of canned foods, sweets, cigarettes, cold drinks.

1991 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 12 Jan. 8 As the years marched on, the corner grocer evolved into a café or general dealer.

2009 J. Peffer Art & End of Apartheid i. 1 Two figures walk along carrying packages—one exits a corner café with his purchases in his hands.

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café brûlot n. [after French brûlot (1843 denoting a mixture of an alcholic drink and sugar burned and added to a cup of coffee)] U.S. (originally and chiefly Louisiana) coffee flavoured with a mixture of sugar, spices, citrus peel, and brandy, which has been ignited and allowed to burn for a short while; originally in café brûlot diabolique.

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1894 K. Chopin Bayou Folk 120 She arranged his after-dinner brûlot,—a lump of sugar in a flaming teaspoonful of brandy, dropped into a tiny cup of black coffee.]

1902 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 65 Café Brulot Diabolique.

1904 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 54 The menu was as follows..Dessert..Café Brulot Fine Champagne..Cigars.

1941 in B. A. Botkin Treasury S. Folklore (1949) iv. i. 578 At formal dinners, and during the holiday season, café brûlot is served.

2011 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 17 July (Good Life section) 1 There are beignets and boudin, po-boys and pralines, crawfish and café brulot, jambalaya and jazz.

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café cognac n. [after French café cognac] coffee with cognac.

ΚΠ

1882 W. Graham 'Neath Southern Skies iv. 33 Fortescue and Devereux were..chatting together, in the sweet summery air, each furnished with a cigar and a café cognac.

1937 M. Sadleir These Foolish Things 8 I slumped into a café chair and drank some really hot café-cognac.

2007 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Features section) 15 I was on nodding terms with the patron of a bar in Montparnasse. When I nodded, he brought me a cafe cognac.

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café royale n. [Apparently < French café café n. + royale, feminine of royal royal adj.; the expression does not appear to have been borrowed from French. Perhaps compare café royale as the name of various cafés.] coffee with brandy (which has been ignited and allowed to burn for a short while), also occasionally served with spices, cream, etc.

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1890 N.Y. Times 23 Nov. 11/1 Come here and sit down. Have a cigar and a café royale.

1965 R. A. Heinlein Farnham's Freehold i. 10 Fetch me coffee. And brandy. Café royale.

2009 J. Mallea-Olaetxe Basques of Reno & N.E. Sierra iv. 82 (caption) Special dishes..are served with all the lamb one can eat, topped off with café royale and singing.

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单词	café
释义	cafén. Brit. /ˈkafeɪ/, U.S. /kæˈfeɪ/ Forms: Also vulgarly or jocularly pronounced /keɪf/ or /kæf/, and written in the form cafe; cf. caff n. Etymology: < French café coffee, coffee-house. A coffee-house, a restaurant; strictly a French term, but in the late 19th cent. introduced into the English-speaking countries for the name of a class of restaurant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > café or tearoom tearoom1733 café1802 tea-garden1802 estaminet1814 cafeteria1839 coffee palace1879 coffee parlour1894 zinc1914 caff1931 pull-in1938 transport café1938 pantry1948 relais1957 kayf1962 izakaya1987 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 5 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 179 I breakfasted at the Café d' Acajon.] 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 73 All the Cafés are out of doors. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. xliii A rushing whisper over Paris, encreasing to a buzz in the Cafés. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 389 Cafés and clubs roared incessantly. 1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel (1963) xvi. 151 In the corners of the saloon, up and down the stairs, were cafés and refreshment bars. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 150 He wrote it as well as he knew how, and then went in disguise to the café of the critics. 1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 85 The cafés are crowded with backgammon players. 1906 A. Bennett Whom God hath Joined i. 5 Workshops, theatres, concerts, cafés, pawnshops. 1929 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXII. 374 If popular tea-shops paint their title of cafe over their doors the word will be pronounced like chafe and safe. 1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night i. 15 At St. Albans a lorry-driver was sitting hunched up at the counter of a transport café. 1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 71 ‘There's the café’ (she pronounced it caif). Compounds C1. General attributive. a. café-bar n. ΚΠ 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 641/3 In the other wing is a café-bar. café-habit n. ΚΠ 1910 Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 4/4 Any slight modification in the national temperament which the café habit might..bring. café-haunter n. ΚΠ 1951 Mind 60 331 It is the café-haunters, the preachers, the metaphysicians and the calendar-makers who talk of beauty. café-restaurant n. ΚΠ 1926 ‘C. Barry’ Detective's Holiday iv. 40 The café-restaurant which the forester had called the canteen. café-window n. ΚΠ 1907 W. O. Lillibridge Where Trail Divides 56 A complexion prairie wind had made like a lobster display in a café window. b. café-haunting n. ΚΠ 1866 M. Arnold Friendship's Garland (1871) 167 I do not wish them [sc. my countrymen] to be the café-haunting, dominoes-playing Frenchmen. C2. café chantant n. /kaˌfeɪ ʃɒ̃ˈtɒ̃/ [lit. ‘singing café’] a café in which the customers are entertained by singers or other music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > nightclub finish1796 café chantant1854 nightclub1871 bottle party1903 lokal1903 cabaret1912 boîte1922 supper club1927 nitery1929 hot spot1930 spot1930 clip-joint1933 nightspot1936 night box1938 Nachtlokal1939 partouze1959 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > with entertainment café chantant1854 night box1938 theatre-restaurant1958 1854 B. St. John Purple Tints Paris II. iii. 67 Go out to the Luxembourg, to a café chantant,..or to the country. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 164 Leicester Square..with..the monster cafés chantants. 1896 Mrs. H. Ward Sir George Tressady xvi I suppose you don't go to cafés chantants? 1908 Westm. Gaz. 18 June 1/3 The humbler rôle of café-chantant artist. 1968 Times 13 Nov. 10/4 Downstairs in the same new establishment there is a café-chantant. café concert n. a musical or variety concert given in a café; also = café chantant n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of Philharmonic concert1740 benefit-concert1759 chamber concert1760 recital1762 Dutch concert1774 concert performance1777 philharmonica1796 musical soirée1821 sacred concert1832 soirée musicale1836 promenade concert1839 pianoforte recital1840 ballad concert1855 piano recital1855 Monday pop1862 Pop1862 promenade1864 popular1865 Schubertiad1869 recitative1873 organ recital1877 pop concert1880 smoker1887 smoke concert1888 café concert1891 prom1902 smoke-ho1918 smoking-concert1934 hootenanny1940 opry1940 Liederabend1958 1891 Harper's Mag. Dec. 49/2 A café concert over in the Bowery. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 197 Chabrier's..tunes, though evocative of the café-concert are in no way pastiches of café-concert tunes. café society n. originally U.S. a group of people who frequent fashionable restaurants, night-clubs, and resorts: also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 1937 Fortune Dec. 123 A blending of old socialites and new celebrities called Café Society. 1952 Time 8 Sept. 4/2 All the other café society playboys and playgirls. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 May 250/5 His Jewish birth militated against his admission to what would now be called café society. C3. In French phrases, with the sense ‘coffee’. café au lait n. coffee taken with milk; white coffee; also, the colour of café au lait, a brownish cream colour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream milk coffeec1695 café au lait1763 mélange1838 caffè latte1847 sergeant-major1923 café crème1936 cappuccino1948 mochaccino1963 flat white1971 latte macchiato1976 cortado1985 caffè macchiato1988 latte1989 skinny1992 the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > light brown dust-colour1607 milk chocolate1723 café au lait1763 whitey-brown1858 biscuit1879 rachel1880 bisque1891 lobster bisque1895 toast-colour1898 parchment1904 toast1922 suntan1923 milk coffee1972 1763 H. Walpole Let. 18 Oct. (1904) V. 382 Pray send me some café au lait: the Duc de Picquigny..takes it for snuff. 1823 J. Griscom Year in Europe II. 32 We..refreshed ourselves..with an excellent cup of caffè [sic] au lait. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 420 Red with yellow, produces orange... To this shade may be referred flame colour,..café au lait,..marigold. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 19 Milk-women..selling the chief material of the Parisian café-au-lait. 1893 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 394/2 The faintest tinge of café au lait with a dash of yellow in it. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 12/3 Café-au-lait brocade. café complet n. (see quot. 1966). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks nuncheonc1260 morsela1382 refection?a1439 mixtumc1490 bever1500 banquet1509 collation1525 snatch1570 beverage1577 a little something1577 anders-meat1598 four-hours1637 watering1637 refreshment1639 snap1642 luncheona1652 crib1652 prandicle1656 munchin1657 baita1661 unch1663 afternooning1678 whet1688 nacket1694 merenda1740 rinfresco1745 bagging?1746 snack1757 coffee1774 second breakfast1775 nummit1777 stay-stomach1800 damper1804 eleven o'clock1805 noonshine1808 by-bit1819 morning1819 four1823 four o'clock1825 lunch1829 stay-bit1833 picnic meal1839 elevens1849 Tommy1864 picnic tea1869 dinnerette1872 merienda1880 elevenses1887 light bite1887 soldier's supper1893 mug-up1902 tray1914 café complet1933 nosha1941 namkeen1942 snax1947 snackette1952 chaat1954 ploughman's lunch1957 munchie1959 playlunch1960 short-eat1962 lite bite1965 munchie1971 ploughman1975 aperitivo2002 the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with food café complet1933 1933 E. Blunden & S. Norman We'll shift our Ground 120 These trays of frippery called cafés complets, with their couple of doughy croissants embracing in a teacup. 1937 M. V. Hughes London Home in Nineties viii. 137 Our breakfast consisted of café complet. I made it as ‘complet’ as I could, but was ravenous by midday. 1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide 31 Café complet, or, more accurately, café au lait complet means coffee with milk and lumps of sugar accompanied by bread or rolls and butter; sometimes jam is included. café crème n. coffee with cream. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream milk coffeec1695 café au lait1763 mélange1838 caffè latte1847 sergeant-major1923 café crème1936 cappuccino1948 mochaccino1963 flat white1971 latte macchiato1976 cortado1985 caffè macchiato1988 latte1989 skinny1992 1936 C. Connolly Rock Pool viii. 203 A hundred café crèmes steamed on the marble tables. 1966 C. Bush Case of Good Employer x. 99 I asked for a large café crême. café-filtre n. (a cup of) coffee made by filtering boiling water through coffee; cf. filtre n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee by type of preparation real coffee1877 drip coffee1895 cowboy coffee1915 café-filtre1922 caffè espresso1933 perc1936 Nescafé1938 espresso1945 instant1954 Nescaff1962 cafe Americano1964 filtre1966 Nes1967 Americano1973 espresso macchiato1976 caffè ristretto1977 ristretto1980 espresso ristretto1983 half-caf1990 1922 W. H. Ukers All about Coffee xxxv. 675/1 Gatti's, where café filtré, or coffee produced by the filtration method, is a specialty; the cosmopolitan Savoy. 1958 M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting xvii. 252 A café-filtre, if you please. 1965 P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise vii. 79 He set out two large cups and the perforated metal containers for making café filtre. café noir n. black coffee, i.e. coffee without milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > black coffee black coffee1796 café noir1845 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxvii. 648 For the café noir served after dinner in all French families put less water. 1863 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. (new ed.) 879 Cafe noir. 1898 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 255 The widow brought our café noir to us after dinner. 1914 Daily Express 29 Sept. 2/7 Men the colour of ebony, café noir, café au lait. Draft additions September 2013 South African. A small, local shop selling newspapers, confectionery, groceries, etc.; a convenience store. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local convenience store1902 duka1912 dairy1914 sari-sari store1925 café1957 corner shop1963 neighbourhood friendly1970 depanneur1975 kirana1979 1957 B. O'Keefe Gold without Glitter 79 Number Twelve set off on the sixteen mile journey..with as little concern as the city dweller when he strolls down to the corner café to buy a packet of cigarettes. 1974 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 3 Nov. (Colour Mag.) 3/1 The local cafe is the same throughout South Africa—a cluster of canned foods, sweets, cigarettes, cold drinks. 1991 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 12 Jan. 8 As the years marched on, the corner grocer evolved into a café or general dealer. 2009 J. Peffer Art & End of Apartheid i. 1 Two figures walk along carrying packages—one exits a corner café with his purchases in his hands. Draft additions September 2013 café brûlot n. [after French brûlot (1843 denoting a mixture of an alcholic drink and sugar burned and added to a cup of coffee)] U.S. (originally and chiefly Louisiana) coffee flavoured with a mixture of sugar, spices, citrus peel, and brandy, which has been ignited and allowed to burn for a short while; originally in café brûlot diabolique. ΚΠ 1894 K. Chopin Bayou Folk 120 She arranged his after-dinner brûlot,—a lump of sugar in a flaming teaspoonful of brandy, dropped into a tiny cup of black coffee.] 1902 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 65 Café Brulot Diabolique. 1904 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 54 The menu was as follows..Dessert..Café Brulot Fine Champagne..Cigars. 1941 in B. A. Botkin Treasury S. Folklore (1949) iv. i. 578 At formal dinners, and during the holiday season, café brûlot is served. 2011 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 17 July (Good Life section) 1 There are beignets and boudin, po-boys and pralines, crawfish and café brulot, jambalaya and jazz. Draft additions September 2013 café cognac n. [after French café cognac] coffee with cognac. ΚΠ 1882 W. Graham 'Neath Southern Skies iv. 33 Fortescue and Devereux were..chatting together, in the sweet summery air, each furnished with a cigar and a café cognac. 1937 M. Sadleir These Foolish Things 8 I slumped into a café chair and drank some really hot café-cognac. 2007 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Features section) 15 I was on nodding terms with the patron of a bar in Montparnasse. When I nodded, he brought me a cafe cognac. Draft additions September 2013 café royale n. [Apparently < French café café n. + royale, feminine of royal royal adj.; the expression does not appear to have been borrowed from French. Perhaps compare café royale as the name of various cafés.] coffee with brandy (which has been ignited and allowed to burn for a short while), also occasionally served with spices, cream, etc. ΚΠ 1890 N.Y. Times 23 Nov. 11/1 Come here and sit down. Have a cigar and a café royale. 1965 R. A. Heinlein Farnham's Freehold i. 10 Fetch me coffee. And brandy. Café royale. 2009 J. Mallea-Olaetxe Basques of Reno & N.E. Sierra iv. 82 (caption) Special dishes..are served with all the lamb one can eat, topped off with café royale and singing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1763
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