demitasse
Americannoun
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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
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Take the demitasse of onion soup that’s piping-hot stock on the bottom, cool whipped foie gras “cappuccino” on top and garnished with tiny diced apple.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
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
Other nautically themed offerings include a porcelain demitasse cup and saucer, trimmed with 24 karat gold, from the presidential yacht U.S.S.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
In profile it looks like a deformed demitasse, a dainty china cup whose handle curves around and warps into a sea monster's tentacle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2014
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 Ford, Sewell
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