coffee shop
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coffee shop
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Example Sentences
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When she’s not reporting, you might find her at a pool, coffee shop, library or movie theater.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
After one coffee shop sustained damage in the strike, dozens of Kyiv residents flocked to support the business, queueing up to make orders despite the damage.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
Police had approached the two brothers from Rochdale in the pay station after an incident at a coffee shop earlier, Liverpool Crown Court had heard.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
The quality, he says over a bottle of San Pellegrino at a coffee shop in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant on a sunny April afternoon, is “subconscious.”
From Salon • May 15, 2026
The maid showed us into a drawing room as large as the entire first floor of the coffee shop.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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