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coffee-house

coffee-house is the alternative form of coffeehouse.

Meaning of coffeehouse

Noun

coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)

  1. An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
    • […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and...1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin; London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3
    Synonyms:
    coffee shop

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Forms of coffee-house

pluralcoffee-houses

Questions about coffee-house

What is coffee-house the alternative form of?
Coffee-house is the alternative form of coffeehouse.

Words near coffee-house in the dictionary

  1. coffee-cup
  2. coffee-cups
  3. coffee-ed
  4. coffee-glass
  5. coffee-glasses
  6. coffee-house
  7. coffee-houses
  8. coffee-ing
  9. coffee-kettle
  10. coffee-kettles
  11. coffee-klatch

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