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demi-tasse

demi-tasse is the alternative form of demitasse.

Meaning of demitasse

Noun

demitasse (plural demitasses)

  1. A small cup of strong black coffee.
    • He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences.1876 July, Henry James, Jr., “The American”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXVIII, number CCXXV, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and...
  2. The cup in which this coffee is served.

Forms of demi-tasse

pluraldemi-tasses

Questions about demi-tasse

What is demi-tasse the alternative form of?
Demi-tasse is the alternative form of demitasse.

Words near demi-tasse in the dictionary

  1. demi-pointe
  2. demi-rilievo
  3. demi-savage
  4. demi-sec
  5. demi-secs
  6. demi-tasse
  7. demi-tasses
  8. demi-toilette
  9. demi-vegetarian
  10. demi-vegetarians
  11. demi-vierge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demi-tasse (page history and authors); demitasse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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