Cafe
[kɑ:'fei]
Definition
(n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.
Typist: Molly
Unserious Contents or Definition
A place where the public pays the proprietor for the privilege of tipping the waiters for something to eat.
Editor: Pedro
Examples
- They went to the music-hall, and afterwards to the Pompadour Cafe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We stopped at the first cafe we came to and entered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She wore no hat in the heated cafe, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From every side of the Cafe, eyes turned half furtively, half jeeringly at her, men looking over their shoulders, women under their hats. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun hated the Cafe, yet she always went back to it, as did most of the artists of her acquaintance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun told Ursula the experience of the Birkin letter in the cafe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And she turned and walked out of the Cafe with the letter, all down the brilliant room, between the tables, in her measured fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- St. Clare had turned into a cafe, to look over an evening paper. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Halliday turned with absurd animosity upon Gerald, in the cafe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- CREME DE MENTHE They met again in the cafe several hours later. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The shops were opening and the cafes filling with early morning patrons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Sight-seeing from morning till night, stopping for nice lunches in the gay _cafes_, and meeting with all sorts of droll adventures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Edited by Elena