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café

1
or ca·fe

[ ka-fey, kuh- French ka-fey ]

noun

, plural ca·fés [ka-, feyz, k, uh, -, k, a, -, fey].
  1. a small, unpretentious restaurant, often with exterior seating on a patio or extending onto the sidewalk.

    Synonyms: tearoom, lunchroom, bistro, coffeehouse

  2. I pick up a café and a croissant on my commute in to work every morning.



CAFE

2

[ ka-fey, kuh- ]

noun

  1. a U.S. federally mandated standard of average minimum miles-per-gallon fuel consumption for all the cars produced by an automobile manufacturer in a given year.

café

/ ˈkæfeɪ; ˈkæfɪ /

noun

  1. a small or inexpensive restaurant or coffee bar, serving light meals and refreshments
  2. a corner shop or grocer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of café1

First recorded in 1780–90; from French: literally, “coffee”; coffee

Origin of café2

C(orporate) A(verage) F(uel) E(conomy)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of café1

C19: from French: coffee
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Example Sentences

As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.

America already has a cereal cafe, Cereality, which has a store in Virginia and at the Dallas Fort Worth airport.

But in October 2010, Palestinian security forces stormed into an Internet cafe and arrested me.

Boyfriend, a New Orleans-based rapper who prefers not to reveal her real name, gets up from her decaf cafe au lait.

In January, an attack on a Lebanese cafe popular with expats left 21 people dead.

They take in a couple of French papers at this cafe, and the same number of Belgian journals.

Their generosity did not suffice for his dissipations, his cafe bills and his unbridled taste for billiards.

No long endless tables and big red velvet divans, as in a cafe!

At Tarascon, in a cafe, an hour ago; fifteen men attacked me, and I seized a knife to defend myself.

I tore off the wrappings and spread out the diamonds on the cafe table; I could not believe they were real.

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