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café con leche

café con leche noun: a coffee beverage common throughout Spain and Latin America consisting of strong coffee (usually espresso) mixed with scalded milk in approximately equal amounts.

café con leche: a coffee beverage common throughout Spain and Latin America consisting of strong coffee (usually...
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Noun

café con leche (countable and uncountable, plural cafés con leche or café con leches)

  1. A coffee beverage common throughout Spain and Latin America consisting of strong coffee (usually espresso) mixed with scalded milk in approximately equal amounts.
    • She made thick stews from leftovers and the smells drowned out the aroma of Melena’s café con leches.[…]She was expensive, but Melena lived on café con leches and we paid her price.2000, Ivonne Lamazares, The Sugar Island, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 88 and 109
    • We sit in puffy velvet armchairs near the fireplace, in a corner at Satellite Coffee across from the University of New Mexico, drinking cafés con leche.2010, Alisa Valdes, The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story, St. Martin’s Press

Examples of café con leche in a sentence

  • Some were slumped over their café con leches in deep conversation; others were playing chess and some playing dominoes.2012, A.Paul Dileski, After the Carnival, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:
  • I watched as she drank two café con leches, ate three different kinds of pastry, let me win our very quick, second chess game.2015, Eduardo Lalo, translated by David Frye, Simone, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 64:
  • The waiter refills their coffee cups with warm café con leches.2019, Kay Sellers, Outlier, Xlibris, →ISBN:

Forms of café con leche

pluralcafés con leche
pluralcafé con leches
alternative formcafe con leche

Origin of café con leche

From Spanish café con leche.

Questions about café con leche

What does café con leche mean?
Café con leche means a coffee beverage common throughout Spain and Latin America consisting of strong coffee (usually espresso) mixed with scalded milk in approximately equal amounts.
How do you use café con leche in a sentence?
Some were slumped over their café con leches in deep conversation; others were playing chess and some playing dominoes.
What part of speech is café con leche?
Café con leche is a noun.
What is the plural of café con leche?
The plural of café con leche is cafés con leche.

Words near café con leche in the dictionary

  1. café
  2. café au lait
  3. café au laits
  4. café chantant
  5. café chantants
  6. café con leche
  7. café con leches
  8. café de move-on
  9. Café de Paris sauce
  10. café espresso
  11. café espressos

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