coffeehouse
Americannoun
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coffeehouses
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a public place that specializes in serving coffee and other refreshments and that sometimes provides informal entertainment.
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(in 17th- and 18th-century England) a similar establishment where groups met for a particular purpose, as for informal discussions or card playing.
verb (used without object)
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Informal. to engage in aimless talk or chitchat.
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Cards. to make remarks and gestures during play with the purpose of misleading opponents as to the cards one holds.
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The U.S. release ended up with an altered track listing that highlighted the group’s folkier leanings; Joni Mitchell wore the grooves out on her copy and slipped “Norwegian Wood” into her coffeehouse sets in Detroit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The coffeehouse opened in June near a neighbourhood of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who strictly shun working, exchanging money and using electricity on Saturdays.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Starbucks is cutting an additional 104 jobs in coffeehouse design and development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Between his coffeehouse, wife and three kids, it all got spent.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
Eliza led me down back streets as I briefly explained what had happened since Grandfather and I left the coffeehouse.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
These changes are part of Niccol’s turnaround strategy at Starbucks, which aims to address slow service and overly busy coffeehouses.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Ship-spotting got its start as gossip in London’s 17th-century coffeehouses when the newly imported drink became fashionable among the professional classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
This was the vision that former CEO Howard Schultz had long chased: bringing Italian-style coffeehouses to the U.S. and transforming them into a ubiquitous “third place” for Americans.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
Starbucks will enter the Olympic arena for the first time by providing specially designed coffeehouses in the Olympic and Paralympic village, competition venues and volunteer hubs for athletes, fans and spectators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
Those were the words whispered on the streets of Ketterdam, in the taverns and coffeehouses, in the dark and bleeding alleys of the pleasure district known as the Barrel.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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