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café
(ˈkæfeɪ, formerly ‖ kafe)
Also vulgarly or jocularly pronounced |keɪf| or |kæf|, and written in the form cafe; cf. caff.
[Fr. café coffee, coffee-house.]
1. A coffee-house, a restaurant; strictly a French term, but in the late 19th c. introduced into the English-speaking countries for the name of a class of restaurant.
[1789A. Young Travels 5 Sept. (1929) 1. 229, I breakfasted at the Café D'Acajou.] 1802C. Wilmot Let. 19 June in Irish Peer (1920) 73 All the Cafés are out of doors. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) Pref. 43 A rushing whisper over Paris, encreasing to a buzz in the Cafés. 1851Gallenga Mariotti's Italy 389 Cafés and clubs roared incessantly. 1870D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel (1963) xvi. 151 In the corners of the saloon, up and down the stairs, were cafés and refreshment bars. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 160 He wrote it as well as he knew how, and then went in disguise to the café of the critics. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 85 The cafés are crowded with backgammon players. 1906A. Bennett Whom God hath Joined i. 5 Workshops, theatres, concerts, cafés, pawnshops. 1929S.P.E. Tract xxxii. 374 If popular tea-shops paint their title of cafe over their doors the word will be pronounced like chafe and safe. 1938[see transport n. 6]. 1965I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 71 ‘There's the café’ (she pronounced it caif).
2. attrib. and Comb.
a. as café-bar, café-habit, café-haunter, café-restaurant, café-window; café-haunting adj.
1938Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 641/3 In the other wing is a café-bar.
1910Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 4/4 Any slight modification in the national temperament which the café habit might..bring.
1951Mind LX. 331 It is the café-haunters, the preachers, the metaphysicians and the calendar-makers who talk of beauty.
1866M. Arnold Friendship's Garland (1871) 167, I do not wish them [sc. my countrymen] to be the café-haunting, dominoes-playing Frenchmen.
1926‘C. Barry’ Detective's Holiday iv. 40 The café-restaurant which the forester had called the canteen.
1907W. O. Lillibridge Where Trail Divides 56 A complexion prairie wind had made like a lobster display in a café window.
b. café chantant |ʃɑ̃tɑ̃| [lit. ‘singing café’], a café in which the customers are entertained by singers or other music; café concert, a musical or variety concert given in a café; also = café chantant; café society (orig. U.S.), a group of people who frequent fashionable restaurants, night-clubs, and resorts: also attrib.
1854B. St. John Purple Tints Paris II. iii. 67 Go out to the Luxembourg, to a café chantant,..or to the country. 1859Sala Twice round Clock 164 Leicester Square..with..the monster cafés chantants. 1908Westm. Gaz. 18 June 1/3 The humbler rôle of café-chantant artist. 1968Times 13 Nov. 10/4 Downstairs in the same new establishment there is a café-chantant.
1891Harper's Mag. Dec. 49/2 A café concert over in the Bowery. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 197 Chabrier's..tunes, though evocative of the café-concert are in no way pastiches of café-concert tunes.
1937Fortune Dec. 123 A blending of old socialites and new celebrities called Café Society. 1952Time 8 Sept. 4/2 All the other café society playboys and playgirls. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 9 May 250/5 His Jewish birth militated against his admission to what would now be called café society.
‖3. In French phrases, with the sense ‘coffee’, as café au lait, coffee taken with milk; white coffee; also, the colour of café au lait, a brownish cream colour; café complet (see quot. 1966); café crème, coffee with cream; café-filtre, (a cup of) coffee made by filtering boiling water through coffee; cf. filtre; café noir, black coffee, i.e. coffee without milk.
1763H. Walpole Let. 18 Oct. (1904) V. 382 Pray send me some café au lait: the Duc de Picquigny..takes it for snuff. 1823J. Griscom Year in Europe II. 32 We..refreshed ourselves..with an excellent cup of caffè [sic] au lait. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 420 Red with yellow, produces orange... To this shade may be referred flame colour,..café au lait,..marigold. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk. -Bk. I. 19 Milk-women..selling the chief material of the Parisian café-au-lait. 1907Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 12/3 Café-au-lait brocade.
1933Blunden & Norman We'll shift our Ground 120 These trays of frippery called cafés complets, with their couple of doughy croissants embracing in a teacup. 1937M. 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. 1966P. V. Price France 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.
1936C. Connolly Rock Pool viii. 203 A hundred café crèmes steamed on the marble tables. 1966C. Bush Case of Good Employer x. 99, I asked for a large café crême.
1922W. 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. 1958M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting xvii. 252 A café-filtre, if you please. 1965P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise vii. 79 He set out two large cups and the perforated metal containers for making café filtre.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxvii. 648 For the café noir served after dinner in all French families put less water. 1898Cornhill Mag. Aug. 255 The widow brought our café noir to us after dinner. 1914Daily Express 29 Sept. 2/7 Men the colour of ebony, café noir, café au lait. |