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- noun Plural form of
coffeehouse .
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Examples
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The Genetic Opera from songs they had been performing in coffeehouses in L.A. for two years.
Which came first? “Repo Men” or “Repo! The Genetic Opera”? » Scene-Stealers 2010
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It is allowed in coffeehouses, but only reluctantly.
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It is allowed in coffeehouses, but only reluctantly.
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I see the willowy teen figures in coffeehouses and malls.
THREE DEGREES OF SEPARATION: The Last Days of Daikon Ashi 2006
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I see the willowy teen figures in coffeehouses and malls.
September 2006 2006
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Jacob doesn’t offer any reason to believe that kids in coffeehouses will be able to produce work that people are willing to pay for.
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But in this case he typed “history of newspapers” into his prototype and was instantly ushered inside a book that explained how newspapers had started in English coffeehouses in port cities, where sailors exchanged stories of their travels.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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I learned a lot, made good money (great money for the area where I lived) for six months, fattened my bank account, and then fled for California, where I spent a month hanging out in coffeehouses.
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But in this case he typed “history of newspapers” into his prototype and was instantly ushered inside a book that explained how newspapers had started in English coffeehouses in port cities, where sailors exchanged stories of their travels.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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THE INNS AND TAVERNS, sometimes called coffeehouses or ordinaries, at which travelers lodged, were designated by pictured signs or emblems hung before the door, and were given names which had no relation to their uses, as the Indian Head, the Crooked Billet, the Green Dragon, the Plow and
A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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