café noir

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"One night when he had no money for a room he spent the night in the Café du Dôme—buying only two cafés noirs—and he made thirty-three sketches of the stemmed goblet in which the coffee was served."

Borrowed from French café noir.

café noirs (plural) cafés noirs (plural)

café au lait caffè latte

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