demitasse









demitasse


noun

  1. a small cup for serving strong black coffee after dinner.
  2. the coffee contained in such a cup.

noun

  1. a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
  2. the coffee itself
n.

also demi-tasse, 1842, from French, literally “half-cup,” from demi- + tasse, an Old French borrowing from Arabic tassah, from Persian tasht “cup, saucer” (cf. Italian tazza, Spanish taza “cup”).

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