café con leche

plural cafés con leche · plural café con leches · alternative cafe con leche

1. countableuncountableA coffee beverage common throughout Spain and Latin America consisting of strong coffee (usually espresso) mixed with scalded milk in approximately equal amounts.

   The waiter refills their coffee cups with warm café con leches.

   2019, Kay Sellers, Outlier, Xlibris, →ISBN

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   She made thick stews from leftovers and the smells drowned out the aroma of Melena’s café con leches.[…]She was expensive, but Melena lived on café con leches and we paid her price.

   2000, Ivonne Lamazares, The Sugar Island, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 88 and 109

   We sit in puffy velvet armchairs near the fireplace, in a corner at Satellite Coffee across from the University of New Mexico, drinking cafés con leche.

   2010, Alisa Valdes, The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story, St. Martin’s Press

   Some were slumped over their café con leches in deep conversation; others were playing chess and some playing dominoes.

   2012, A.Paul Dileski, After the Carnival, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 39

   I watched as she drank two café con leches, ate three different kinds of pastry, let me win our very quick, second chess game.

   2015, Eduardo Lalo, translated by David Frye, Simone, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 64

   I was one of the only customers at that hour except for a few elderly men sitting morosely at the bar inside, busily reading their newspapers and dunking their croissants into their café con leches in semiautomatic movements.

   2021, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Savage Tongues, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 131