coffeehouse
[kaw-fee-hous, kof-ee-]
- a public place that specializes in serving coffee and other refreshments and that sometimes provides informal entertainment.
- (in 17th- and 18th-century England) a similar establishment where groups met for a particular purpose, as for informal discussions or card playing.
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- Informal. to engage in aimless talk or chitchat.
- Cards. to make remarks and gestures during play with the purpose of misleading opponents as to the cards one holds.
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Origin of coffeehouse
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Examples from the Web for coffeehouse
Contemporary Examples
She suggested that Gregory stack newspapers on his desk to give the set an intimate, coffeehouse feel.
David Gregory's 'Meet the Press' Eviction Exposed in Washingtonian TakedownLloyd Grove
December 23, 2014
In the morning, join the intelligentsia at Cafe Pamplona, a European-style coffeehouse, also by Harvard Square.
“Everyone always compares writing to war,” he said over a tall iced tea at a west Los Angeles coffeehouse recently.
The British Spectator speculates on its Coffeehouse blog about a Rand Paul vice presidential nomination.
“This tape empowered me,” Laurer said between sips of iced tea in a busy West Los Angeles coffeehouse.
Historical Examples
I will tell you presently, but let us go into a coffeehouse.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
Then sometimes our club has a real party in the coffeehouse.
Heroines of ServiceMary Rosetta Parkman
He had played briscola with peasants in a coffeehouse of Fiesole.
The Red Lily, CompleteAnatole France
The story is again taken up in a coffeehouse in Vienna where Bollman is accustomed to go.
LafayetteMartha Foote Crow
Certainly there were a great many people down there round about Lloyd's Coffeehouse!
Somehow GoodWilliam de Morgan