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coffee au lait en · NOUN

Etymology

Partial calque of French café au lait.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of café au lait.
    • He left her lying on her stomach, wound in a sheer nightgown, the coffee au lait birthmark on her buttock a blemished island, visible when it was too hot for sheet or blanket. 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in Dubin’s Lives:
    • We stopped for coffee au lait near the old French Market, took a walk out to the levee and then back to the Court of the Three Sisters to sit out under the trees, drink beer and talk fencing until the moon began to yawn. 1940, Dernell Every, “The Editor Goes Roaming”, in The Riposte, volume 5, number 5, page 3: