caffè macchiato en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè macchiato.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of macchiato.
‘[…]I’ve had an idea! Let me explain …’ ‘Not before I’ve had some coffee!’ Francis hauled himself out of bed. Ten minutes later he crawled up the stairs again with two perfect caffè macchiatos. Only when he’d emptied his cup did he allow the conversation to proceed.
2021, Peter Scott-Morgan, Peter 2.0, Penguin Books, published 2022:Riley was carrying two cups of caffè macchiato.
2017, Rosa Temple, Playing Her Cards Right, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN:He ascends to the above and fetches double lattes, caffè macchiatos, triple mochas for the Programmer, coming back trembling at what he has seen:[…]
2009, Anne Finger, Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection, University of Nebraska Press, page 31:I loved you before you were born, have waited for you to be born, went to that café today waiting for you to sit there and order three caffè macchiatos—with just the thinnest streak of coffee—and to see me and to recognize in me, beyond the mask of my years, the man you have been expecting even before you came into this world.
2010, Frederic Tuten, Self Portraits: Fictions, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, page 85:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| caffè macchiatos | Number=Plur | lexicographic |