café
or ca·fe
[ka-fey, kuh- or especially for 4, French ka-fey]
- a restaurant, often with an enclosed or outdoor section extending onto the sidewalk.
- a restaurant, usually small and unpretentious.
- a barroom, cabaret, or nightclub.
- coffee.
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Origin of café
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comCAFE
[ka-fey, kuh-]
- a U.S. federally mandated standard of average minimum miles-per-gallon fuel consumption for all the cars produced by an automobile manufacturer in a given year.
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Origin of CAFE
C(orporate) A(verage) F(uel) E(conomy)
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Examples from the Web for cafe
Contemporary Examples
As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.
But in October 2010, Palestinian security forces stormed into an Internet cafe and arrested me.
In January, an attack on a Lebanese cafe popular with expats left 21 people dead.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban ValleyMatt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman
November 15, 2014
At daybreak, they borrowed a small sum of money from a passing family, then called their families from an Internet cafe.
In the morning, join the intelligentsia at Cafe Pamplona, a European-style coffeehouse, also by Harvard Square.
Historical Examples
He proved that he had spent the evening up to eleven o'clock in a cafe.
A Comedy of Marriage and Other TalesGuy De Maupassant
When Rose married him he was leader of the orchestra at a cafe concert where she sang.
A Zola DictionaryJ. G. Patterson
It was Dubuche, whom she knew from having seen him on one occasion at the Cafe Baudequin.
His MasterpieceEmile Zola
"If I were you I should have it in from the cafe," old Bosc slowly announced.
"I've been to the cafe occasionally," Claude said to Florent.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
café
- a small or inexpensive restaurant or coffee bar, serving light meals and refreshments
- Southern African a corner shop or grocer
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Word Origin
C19: from French: coffee
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Word Origin and History for cafe
n.
1802, from French café "coffee, coffeehouse," from Italian caffe "coffee" (see coffee). The beverage was introduced in Venice by 1615 and in France from 1650s by merchants and travelers who had been to Turkey and Egypt. The first public café might have been the one opened in Marseilles in 1660.
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