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- noun Plural form of
coffee-house .
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Examples
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Great for blogs and coffee-houses but not much else.
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do 2010
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We still want some form of life going on around us, coffee-houses, shops, people, and especially good food.
Regina Varolli: Princeton, NJ: A Great Get-Away for Stressed-Out NYC Foodies Regina Varolli 2011
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I make up for it in part by doing my own cooking, though sometimes I get something to eat in cheap coffee-houses.
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Judging from the coffee-houses, which is a fair criterion, they never know in all their lives what tea, coffee, or cocoa tastes like.
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As a vagrant in the "Hobo" of a California jail, I have been served better food and drink than the London workman receives in his coffee-houses; while as an American labourer I have eaten a breakfast for twelvepence such as the British labourer would not dream of eating.
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We still want some form of life going on around us, coffee-houses, shops, people, and especially good food.
Regina Varolli: Princeton, NJ: A Great Get-Away for Stressed-Out NYC Foodies Regina Varolli 2011
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Our speculators frequent certain places which are call coffy-huysen or coffee-houses because a certain beverage is served there called coffy by the Dutch and Caffé by the Levantines.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Wrong with This Assertion? 2010
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We still want some form of life going on around us, coffee-houses, shops, people, and especially good food.
Regina Varolli: Princeton, NJ: A Great Get-Away for Stressed-Out NYC Foodies Regina Varolli 2011
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They do not even wash the dry bread down with the tea to be obtained for a penny in the coffee-houses.
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In the year 1714 Vienna had 11 licensed “coffee-houses”, who found a rival in the “waterbrewers” (distillers) who sold coffee without license.
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