Sankan.
/ˈsaŋkə/ Chiefly U.S.
The proprietary name of a make of decaffeinated coffee.
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1923 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 14 Aug. 251/1 Société Anonyme Fabriques de Produits de Chimie Organique de Laire, Issy, France... Sanka... Teas and coffees; tea and coffee extracts, both dry and liquid, and tea and coffee substitutes. Claims use since Mar. 19, 1910.
1933 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Oct. 642/1 Sanka Coffee Corporation, New York... Sanka. For coffees.
1952 Trade Marks Jrnl. 17 Dec. 1176/1 Sanka... Coffee. General Foods Corporation.., New York.
1964 H. Campbell Why did They name It…? 10 Dr. Roselius named the new product Sanka—a contraction of the French phrase sans caffeine.
1975 New Yorker 26 May 28/1 For breakfast, he ordered orange juice, a boiled egg (five minutes), toast and Sanka.
1978 G. Vidal Kalki viii. 192 Giles served Jason Scotch. Prager asked for Sanka. ‘I have an ulcer,’ he said.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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