coffeehouse

See also: coffee house and coffee-house

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

coffee +‎ house

Pronunciation
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Noun

coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)

  1. An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
    Synonym: coffee shop
    Hypernym: house
    • 1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin, London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3:
      […] 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 Hiſtories in the next.

Translations
café — see café

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