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Small cup for café
Answer for the clue "Small cup for café ", 9 letters:
demitasse
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Word definitions for demitasse in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also demi-tasse , 1842, from French, literally "half-cup," from demi- + tasse , an Old French borrowing from Arabic tassah , from Persian tasht "cup, saucer" (compare Italian tazza , Spanish taza "cup").
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small cup of strong black coffee. 2 The cup in which this coffee is served.
Usage examples of demitasse.
I am the one who remembers that he takes two lumps of Demerara in a demitasse of black coffee.
As Dov settled into the purple velvet seat of a high-backed oak chair, Aurore came gliding in with a tray bearing a demitasse service, a crystal brandy decanter, and two big-bellied snifters.
Giving Arkady a sign to wait, he ducked down into the cabin and returned with a tray table that locked into the cockpit deck, ducked down and returned with a brass tray carrying a basket of sweet rolls, a pot of coffee and three china demitasses with "Gavilan" written on the side.
After that his hefty hostess suggested they have their demitasses with Napoleon in the drawing room.
He poured two demitasses of thick Atlas Mountains coffee and offered one to Dennis.
Demitasse cups and a silver coffee service were on a wicker table.
After the braised fennel amandine and the tossed salad with nasturtium seeds, and the chestnut puree in meringue nests, and the demitasse, Qwilleran reached in his pocket for his pipe and drew forth the turquoise beetle that Koko had found near the waterfront.