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Definition of coffee house in English: coffee housenoun A cafe or other establishment that serves coffee and other refreshments. Example sentencesExamples - I don't want to be the guy with the acoustic guitar in the coffee house.
- Minutes later I was having coffee with my German friend Hanko in the coffee house next to the hotel.
- They want to renovate the cottage in the future, possibly into a coffee house, the profits of which could go towards the local charity.
- We drink it in the smallest coffee house I've ever seen - a place on the silk-vendors street, as wide as its doors.
- I've been thinking and I want you to come with me tonight to that new coffee house for the poetry readings.
- ‘I read in a newspaper the other day that Gus discovered me a year ago, playing in a coffee house,’ Smith says, furrowing his brow in the midday sun.
- Four months later Hobgood was having lunch in the coffee house in the basement of St. Bartholomew's Lutheran Church.
- On a more informal level, Italian coffee houses often presented light comedies, heroic tragedies, and dialect plays sponsored by drama clubs.
- Again, the song is slowed down, being performed more as a poetry reading in a coffee house.
- You performed at your coffee house, or did a skit around a campfire.
- It's a great little place that captures the energy of a university coffee house where a wide range of cultural activities take place.
- Shopkeepers are being asked dress their shop windows with items from the period while local restaurants and coffee houses are being asked to serve only food of the period.
- I'd been, well - let's just call it ‘back-packing’ through Turkey, and I'd crawled into a coffee house to escape the midday sun.
- If poetry is banned from our schools, it will survive elsewhere - in the churches, gyms, parks, and coffee houses, wherever people gather to resist.
- I want to print out these emails and start reading them aloud at a coffee house while somebody plays the bongos in the background.
- The singer recorded the story of Charlie as a pop song after hearing an impromptu performance of the tune in a San Francisco coffee house.
- The thick smoke from Old World coffee houses infects the air, and our feet fly along cobble-stoned back streets to cheap hotels and late night meetings.
- If the local coffee house has an open mic night, do it, and do it every week.
- On account of there being no band playing tonight, we were almost the only people in the tiny coffee house.
- Last night, a friend of mine went to an open mike night at a coffee house and read the monologue.
- Sometimes in the summer the coffee house arranges for a jazz or folk group to play out there and I enjoy seeing people in the anonymous city gather in such a congenial way.
- It's easy - maybe too easy - to exchange ideas with the other leftie intellectuals at the coffee house.
- That spawned a group two years ago called Barrier Breakers, students and faculty who stage events like poetry coffee houses that appeal to all students.
- Coffee lovers should head for Gambrinus, a coffee house in the 19th-century grand style.
- At the British base at Basra ‘international airport’ a group of Indians opened a coffee house serving lattes, cappuccinos and macchiatos for the British troops.
- In the 1960s, Allen Ginsberg took oral poetry into coffee houses, pop festivals, and art happenings.
- Till its recent closure, this locality also had the city's only decent library, as well as a bustling coffee house patronised by the intelligentsia.
- In 1784, the hotel housed a coffee house which laid claim to being the most elegant of its kind in Britain, perhaps in Europe.
- It looks like it belongs in a 1920s coffee house and, I think, adds a touch of class to my desk.
- John Frost's 1793 trial opens a discussion of spatial shifts from the civilized sociability of the coffee house to the courts, prison, and the pillory.
- ‘Consumers in Britain are looking around for something else - a third alternative to the coffee house and pub,’ Philip said.
- A community centre is available for events and hosts coffee houses where residents can perform music and poetry.
- The Lloyd's insurance market in London was originally a coffee house.
- A cup of coffee in a London coffee house sells for $3 - $4.
- The hotel also has its own coffee house, restaurant and sauna.
- Libraries, town halls, schools, universities, bookstores, churches, coffee houses, and shopping malls could launch read-along gatherings with this material.
- Today's IT professional attends a meeting in the middle of a crosswalk, uploads his mission-critical documents in a coffee house, and checks his network stability with a cell phone.
- I put ‘new’ in quotes because there is of course nothing new about the coffee house in England or in my fascination with cafe life.
- He says six gunmen opened fire on him as he sat in a coffee house, after having returned from the international donor's conference.
- The high point of the English coffee house was from 1652 to 1780.
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