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café noirs

café noirs is the plural of café noir.

Meaning of café noir

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

Questions about café noirs

What is café noirs the plural of?
Café noirs is the plural of café noir.

Words near café noirs in the dictionary

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

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