Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A support for the vessel in which coffee is prepared.
- noun A stall set up on the street for the sale of coffee and other refreshments.
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Examples
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Every café, coffee-stand and sandwich bar has mastered the Italianate, and most have a large steel machine blasting away at the back, but the results are still generally pretty second-rate.
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Every café, coffee-stand and sandwich bar has mastered the Italianate, and most have a large steel machine blasting away at the back, but the results are still generally pretty second-rate.
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Every café, coffee-stand and sandwich bar has mastered the Italianate, and most have a large steel machine blasting away at the back, but the results are still generally pretty second-rate.
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In Brief A Supermarket Deal Starbucks Corp. terminated a license deal that involves 45 coffee-stand sites inside supermarkets in Northern California and Nevada.
Starbucks Corp. Ends 2008
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I got this off the powder-room and coffee-stand tele-graph, to which I have excellent taps.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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As they returned to the coffee-stand she broke more than once into a hop of glee.
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At a corner which led into a black hole of a court, a coffee-stand was stationed, in charge of a burly ruffian in corduroys.
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He was led back to the coffee-stand, where now Barney, the proprietor, was pouring out coffee for a hoarse-voiced coster girl with a draggled feather in her hat, who greeted their arrival hilariously.
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There was a coffee-stand upon the corner, and here he bought two doughnuts for a cent each, and began munching them, noticing at the same time that they were not of the best, being dry, and that the flavor wasn't to be compared to that of those Grace was in the habit of turning out at home.
Richard Dare's Venture Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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He was a tall, slender fellow, with thick, close-cropped brown beard and clear blue eyes, and he had got that poor devil of a prisoner and his guard together, and was fetching them back along the track to the coffee-stand that happened to be right opposite where the sleeper stopped.
Under Fire Charles King 1888
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