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cafe con leche

cafe con leche is the alternative form of café con leche.

Meaning of café con leche

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

Forms of cafe con leche

pluralcafes con leche
pluralcafe con leches

Questions about cafe con leche

What is cafe con leche the alternative form of?
Cafe con leche is the alternative form of café con leche.

Words near cafe con leche in the dictionary

  1. cafarsite
  2. Cafcass
  3. cafe
  4. cafe au lait
  5. cafe au laits
  6. cafe con leche
  7. cafe con leches
  8. cafe curtains
  9. cafe hop
  10. cafe hopped
  11. cafe hopping

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