cafe

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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noun

a U.S. federally mandated standard of average minimum miles-per-gallon fuel consumption for all the cars produced by an automobile manufacturer in a given year.

Origin:
C(orporate) A(verage) F(uel) E(conomy)

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café (ˈkæfeɪ, ˈkæfɪ)

—n
1.	a small or inexpensive restaurant or coffee bar, serving light meals and refreshments
2.	(South African) a corner shop or grocer

[C19: from French: coffee]

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Word Origin & History

cafe

1802, from Fr. café "coffee, coffeehouse," from It. caffe "coffee" (see coffee). The beverage was introduced in Venice by 1615 and in France from 1650s by merchants and travelers who had been in Turkey and Egypt. The first public café might have been the one

opened in Marseilles in 1660.

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CAFE definition

["Job Control Languages: MAXIMOP and CAFE", J. Brandon, Proc BCS Symp on Job Control Languages--Past Present and Future, NCC, Manchester, England 1974].
(1994-10-28)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

CAFE
corporate average fuel economy

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cafe

small eating and drinking establishment, historically a coffeehouse, usually featuring a limited menu; originally these establishments served only coffee. The English term cafe, borrowed from the French, derives ultimately from the Turkish kahve, meaning coffee

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