café noir

[ ka-fey nwar ]

/ ka feɪ ˈnwar /

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noun French.

black coffee.

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Also called ca·fé na·ture

[ka-fey na-tyr]. /ka feɪ naˈtür/.

Words nearby café noir

café chantant, café con leche, café crème, café curtain, café filtre, café noir, café royale, café society, cafeteria, cafeteria benefit, cafeteria plan

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How to use café noir in a sentence

As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.
In Defense of Uber’s Awful Sydney Surge Pricing|Olivia Nuzzi|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
America already has a cereal cafe, Cereality, which has a store in Virginia and at the Dallas Fort Worth airport.
Cereal Cafe’s Big Bowl of Hate|David Levesley|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But in October 2010, Palestinian security forces stormed into an Internet cafe and arrested me.
What It’s Like to Be an Atheist in Palestine|Waleed al-Husseini, Movements.Org|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Boyfriend, a New Orleans-based rapper who prefers not to reveal her real name, gets up from her decaf cafe au lait.
From Church of Christ to Pansexual Rapper|Tyler Gillespie|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In January, an attack on a Lebanese cafe popular with expats left 21 people dead.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But defeated candidates will quite agree that the game of "bleu et jaune" is a good deal worse than "rouge et noir."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, July 27, 1895|Various
They take in a couple of French papers at this cafe, and the same number of Belgian journals.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches|William Makepeace Thackeray
Their generosity did not suffice for his dissipations, his cafe bills and his unbridled taste for billiards.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
A plateau—Noir Hill—ploughed up by countless shells, is reached shortly afterwards.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres|Unknown
No long endless tables and big red velvet divans, as in a cafe!
A Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for café noir

café noir

/ French (kafe nwar) /

noun

black coffee

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