demitasse
Americannoun
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demitasses
plural
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a small cup for serving strong black coffee after dinner.
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the coffee contained in such a cup.
noun
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a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
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the coffee itself
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of demitasse
1835–45; < French: literally, half-cup
Example Sentences
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It’s not one of those $1,000 contraptions on which you push a button and wait for the coffee to stream robotically into a demitasse.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2022
Today’s Renton stash includes snakeskin cowboy boots, gold-rimmed demitasse cups, vintage Air Jordans, an etched glassybaby candle holder and a full set of antique Limoges china.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper was known to celebrate “a damn fine cup of coffee,” but what viewers have been privy to before his reappearance wouldn’t add up to a demitasse.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2017
As waiters carried trays with blood sausage on toothpicks, Irish oatmeal in demitasse cups, and shepherd’s pie tartlets, the sounds of traditional Irish music filled the ornate residence.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2016
Afterward, Desdemona brewed Greek coffee, serving it in demitasse cups with the brown foam, the lakia, on top.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The black water kept coming, rising, sweeping away the 1890 porcelain demitasses, the 1930 lead soldiers, those coveted ceramic Christmas trees.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021
And after linguine alle vongole, it’s hard to consider anything other than the tiramisù, which incorporates what must be several demitasses of espresso.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
But the demitasses were hardly drained before things began to hum at the studio.
From Time Magazine Archive
We was gazin’ out of the open windows watchin’ a thunder storm meander over towards Long Island, and Tidson 18 was just servin’ the demitasses, when there’s a ring on the ’phone.
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford
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