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café noir en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French café noir.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A cup of black coffee.
   • One night when he had no money for a room he spent the night in the Café du Dôme—buying only two cafés noirs—and he made thirty-three sketches of the stemmed goblet in which the coffee was served. 1947, Scott Graham Williamson, The Fiesta at Anderson’s House, Henry Holt and Company, page 161:

Forms

Coordinates

café au lait · caffè latte

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