coffee shop
noun
a small, usually inexpensive, restaurant where refreshments and light meals are served.
Origin of coffee shop
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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He looked in at the coffee-shop while I was eating my bit of food.
The Daffodil MysteryEdgar Wallace
So he turned into a coffee-shop, and ordered coffee and a plate of beef.
Reginald CrudenTalbot Baines Reed
He must not keep a coffee-shop or an inn, or be engaged in any trading whatever.
Life in a Railway FactoryAlfred Williams
Very different was the scene in the meeting-room behind the coffee-shop.
DemosGeorge Gissing
He went into the one coffee-shop in Salonika which served drinkable tea.
The InvadersWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
coffee shop
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