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Coffeehouse   /kˈɔfihˌaʊs/   Listen
Coffeehouse

noun
1.
A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.  Synonyms: cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop.






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"Coffeehouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... in taverns, alehouses, coffeehouses, and cellars, be severely looked unto as the common sin of the time, and greatest occasion of dispersing the plague. And that no company or person be suffered to remain or come into any tavern, alehouse, or coffeehouse, to drink, after nine of the clock in the evening, according to the ancient law and custom of this city, upon ...
— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe

... you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then, go not far to dine: You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old a-ches[2] throb, your hollow tooth will rage; Sauntering in coffeehouse is Dulman seen; He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile the South, rising with dabbled wings, A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift



Words linked to "Coffeehouse" :   eating house, eating place, pull-in, caff, eatery, pull-up, cybercafe, coffee bar, cafe, espresso shop, restaurant, estaminet



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