noun
- a small cup for serving strong black coffee after dinner.
- the coffee contained in such a cup.
noun
- a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
- the coffee itself
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”).