- a variation of chicory.
chiccory
Americannoun
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chiccories
plural
noun
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The tea and coffee in all the hotels on the route are the most miserable concoctions of hayseed and chiccory that were ever palmed off on a long-suffering, patient people.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Pessimism is not reason but a surrogate of reason; therefore, a cheat, such as the merchant who sells chiccory for coffee.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
In the first place, then, the French coffee is coffee, and not chiccory, or rye, or beans, or peas.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
In such processes as the roasting of coffee, chiccory, grain, etc., a diffused heat is necessary, but of much greater intensity than can be obtained with economy from heated air.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
"To see the havoc he's making in the ham and eggs and chiccory is to be convinced that there is no appetizer like regret for the sufferings of others."
From A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells
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