cafés noirs

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