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
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of demitasse
1835–45; < French: literally, half-cup
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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
Last year, the pair launched an online store, SpeakLow, offering everything from 1950s Japanese silver demitasse spoons to the palm-size woodland dioramas that Brown crafts from moss, tree bark and hand-carved clay mushrooms.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
A few sips worth of savory foie gras and chestnut soup is presented in a demitasse cup.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 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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