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café noir

café noir noun: a cup of black coffee.

Noun

café noir (countable and uncountable, plural café noirs or cafés noirs)

  1. A cup of black coffee.
    • One night when he had no money for a room he spent the night in the Café du Dôme—buying only two cafés noirs—and he made thirty-three sketches of the stemmed goblet in which the coffee was served.1947, Scott Graham Williamson, The Fiesta at Anderson’s House, Henry Holt and Company, page 161

Forms of café noir

pluralcafé noirs
pluralcafés noirs

Origin of café noir

Borrowed from French café noir.

Questions about café noir

What does café noir mean?
Café noir means a cup of black coffee.
What part of speech is café noir?
Café noir is a noun.
What is the plural of café noir?
The plural of café noir is café noirs.

Words near café noir in the dictionary

  1. café hop
  2. café latte
  3. café liégeois
  4. café mocha
  5. café mochas
  6. café noir
  7. café noirs
  8. café noisette
  9. café revolutionaries
  10. café revolutionary
  11. café royale

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