flat white

[flat hwahyt, wahyt]

noun

1. a hot beverage consisting of espresso and nonfrothy steamed milk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flat white¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

As England and Barcelona goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck sips her flat white in the Spanish sunshine outside her favourite coffee shop, she looks like a player who has the world at her feet.

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And then the British started calling everything a ... flat white, and then the Australians started calling their cappuccinos “Gibraltars.”

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In addition, there are two other drinks available exclusively in the official Starbucks app: the Iced Caramel Apple Cream latte and Iced Honey Apple Almondmilk Flat White.

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“That’s a wild thing for us as ice core scientists, because we’re used to being way inland and it’s just flat white.”

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Boafo’s artistic throughlines are strong: saturated colors, areas of pattern and texture, “voids” — where backgrounds or clothing are rendered in flat white or blocks of color — and the finger-painted skin, of course.

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