demitasse

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There he meets friends and neighbors, like Roland Davis, vice president of Colfax Banking Co., for coffee -- 5 cents a cup for a demitasse -- and they "solve the world's problems."

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  1. noun A small cup of strong black coffee or espresso.
  2. noun The small cup used to serve this drink.

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  • PLANE DOWN DOC SAVAGE, Renny and Nesta Reynolds got out of the lounge by the simple, if nerve-trying expedient, of joining a group of stewards who were ordered to bring tea and serve it to the jittery passengers of the City of Tulsa as a kind of demitasse for events. —  111 - The Pirate Isle
  • Please. It will be my pleasure As he hurried toward the candy, the woman reached for her demitasse. —  New Page 1
  • And the robust kick of my demitasse of soot-dark Greek Coffee $2.25 perfectly complemented the desserts.
  • There he meets friends and neighbors, like Roland Davis, vice president of Colfax Banking Co., for coffee -- 5 cents a cup for a demitasse -- and they "solve the world's problems." —  thetowntalk.com -
  • It's a movie full of hats, hats and still more hats — silk hats and crystal ones, hats with brims as long as your arm, teeny tiny hats the size of demitasse, pointy hats, round hats, hats of seemingly every shape and size. —  digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews
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  1. French demi-tasse : demi-, demi- + tasse, cup (from Old French, from Arabic ṭašt, basin, from Persian tašt).
 

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