Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of coffee.

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  • noun Obsolete form of coffee.

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Examples

  • Their best drink was "coffa" and sherbet, which is only honey and water.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Their best drink was "coffa" and sherbet, which is only honey and water.

    Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Their sit they, chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of the berry that it is made of), in little _China_ dishes, as hot as they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it (why not that black broth which was in use among the

    Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 Various

  • "coffa", is in Captain John Smith's book of _Travels and Adventure_, published in 1603.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • Certainly this berry coffa, the root and leaf betel, the leaf tobacco, and the tear of poppy

    All About Coffee 1909

  • But it seemeth they were taken after several manners; for coffa and opium are taken down, tobacco but in smoke, and betel is but champed in the mouth with a little lime.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • They have in Turkey a drink called _coffa_ made of a berry of the same name, as black as soot, and of a strong scent, but not aromatical; which they take, beaten into powder, in water, as hot as they can drink it: and they take it, and sit at it in their coffa-houses, which are like our taverns.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • 1603 -- Captain John Smith, English adventurer, and founder of the colony of Virginia, in his book of travels published this year, refers to the Turks 'drink, "coffa."

    All About Coffee 1909

  • "Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their coffa-houses, which something resemble them.

    Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 Various

  • He says of the Turks: "Their best drink is _coffa_ of

    All About Coffee 1909

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