café noir

noun

café noir

noun

Etymology Borrowed from French café noir.

1

A cup of black coffee.

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.1947, Scott Graham Williamson, The Fiesta at Anderson’s House, Henry Holt and Company, page 161:

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