📚 noun • entry_id 25281
demitasse
/ˈdɛmɪtæs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
demitaza
A small cup of strong black coffee.
A gentleman may be presented with a demitasse—a straight-sided, miniature coffee cup containing extremely strong (perhaps flavored) coffee—at the end of his dinner, most likely whe…
He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extr…
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