单词 | choca |
释义 | † chocan. Obsolete. Chiefly in French contexts: a hot drink consisting of a mixture of coffee, chocolate, and milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun] > cocoa and coffee choca1849 mocha1977 1849 A. Soyer Mod. Housewife 412 The characteristic Voltaire pouring a cup of Cho-Ca to Frederic the Great in his tent on the field of Potsdam. 1854 J. Doran Table Traits I. 71 The favourite beverage of Voltaire, at the Café Procope, was ‘choca’—a mixture of coffee (with milk) and chocolate... I do not know a draught which so perfectly soothes and revives as hot, well-frothed ‘choca’. 1893 Coffee Public-House News 1 June 88/2 Voltaire's favourite beverage was choca—a mixture of coffee (with milk) and chocolate. Napoleon, it is said, was fond of this mixture. 1910 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 4/6 It was one of the minor troubles of Napoleon III. when an exile in England that he could not obtain his beloved ‘Choca’ here to his liking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1849 |
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