coffee spoon

noun

1. a small spoon used with demitasse cups.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coffee spoon¹

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

Adult Rachel measures out her days in coffee spoons filled with Splenda and yearns for lunchtime salads packed with as much no-calorie lettuce as she can persuade the Subway clerk to add.

From Washington Post

Apple may be removed in small oval shapes with a coffee spoon, if a French ball cutter is not available.

From Project Gutenberg

Diggs told a story or two, at which Rann roared appreciatively, while Vaden fingered his coffee spoon in pensive abstraction.

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A coffee-spoon rattled onto the floor, as she turned on him again.

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She was eating her oysters with her after-dinner coffee spoon!

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It is not passed, but a glassful standing on a plate, with a coffee spoon beside it, is placed before each person.

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