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café espresso

café espresso noun: coffee made in the espresso style.

Noun

café espresso (countable and uncountable, plural café espressos)

  1. Coffee made in the espresso style.
    • 'Breakfast, please,' said Bond. 'Pineapple juice, double. Cornflakes and cream. Shirred eggs with bacon. Double portion of Café Espresso. Toast and marmalade.'1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 92
  2. A single serve of such coffee.

Forms of café espresso

pluralcafé espressos

Origin of café espresso

Unadapted borrowing from French café espresso.

Questions about café espresso

What does café espresso mean?
Café espresso means coffee made in the espresso style.
What part of speech is café espresso?
Café espresso is a noun.
What is the plural of café espresso?
The plural of café espresso is café espressos.

Words near café espresso in the dictionary

  1. café chantants
  2. café con leche
  3. café con leches
  4. café de move-on
  5. Café de Paris sauce
  6. café espresso
  7. café espressos
  8. café hop
  9. café latte
  10. café liégeois
  11. café mocha

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