coffeehouse
a public place that specializes in serving coffee and other refreshments and that sometimes provides informal entertainment.
(in 17th- and 18th-century England) a similar establishment where groups met for a particular purpose, as for informal discussions or card playing.
Informal. to engage in aimless talk or chitchat.
Cards. to make remarks and gestures during play with the purpose of misleading opponents as to the cards one holds.
Origin of coffeehouse
1Other words from coffeehouse
- cof·fee·hous·er, noun
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How to use coffeehouse in a sentence
After it is all finished, it will be published in e-book form by Coffee House Press.
Except that it was published by little-known Minneapolis art-house company Coffee House Press.
Graywolf Press is there, along with Milkweed, Coffee House Press, Rain Taxi magazine.
He runs the Spectator's political blog, Coffee House, and writes about cinema, literature, and culture as much as he can.
An argument took place in a coffee-house, between two men of taste, as to the best method of dressing a beefsteak.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | Various
Thence to the Coffee-house, and sat long in good discourse with some gentlemen concerning the Roman Empire.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysAt noon to the 'Change and Coffee-house, where great talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysHis firm, angry step echoed the length of the dreary coffee-house and the heavy door fell to slowly behind him.
The Rake's Progress | Marjorie BowenHe can find nowhere to go but to some sorry Coffee-house, or melancholy Walk.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II | Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz
British Dictionary definitions for coffee house
a place where coffee is served, esp one that was a fashionable meeting place in 18th-century London
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