coffée

plural coffées

1. countablerareuncountableRare spelling of coffee.

   [Stops, sways and tries to focus his mind on the Italian.] Coffée . . . ?

   1931, Claire Sifton, Paul Sifton, 1931 — A Play, page 121

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   6 more Horses richly furnish’d were led after him, and 2 of his Principal Courtiers bore, one his Gold and the other his Silver Coffée Pot, on a staff.[…]After this they serv’d me coffée upon their knees in the finest Japan china with soûcoupes of Silver Gilt.[…]The whole shew lasted near 8 hours, to my great sorrow, who was heartily tir’d, thô I was in the House of the Widow of the Capitan Bassa (Admiral), who refresh’d me with Coffée, Sweetmeats, Sherbet, etc., with all possible Civillity.

   a. 1721, The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1708-1720, pages 323, 352, 357

   Sold by T. Ewart facing Old Slaughters, Coffée house Sᵗ. Martins Lane near Long Acre.

   1877, “George II.: 2659. The Plagues of England or the Jacobites Folly”, in Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Division I. Political and Personal Satires (No. 2016 to No. 3116), volume III, part I, prepared by Frederic George Stephens and containing many descriptions by Edward Hawkins, Order of the Trustees, page 525

   To make coffée au lait, take a pint each of hot made coffee and boiling milk; strain through thin muslin into coffee-pot, to get rid of the grounds, and serve hot.

   1889, Miss E. Neill, “Drinks”, in The Every-day Cook-book and Encyclopedia of Practical Recipes, San Francisco: Examiner-Press, “To Make Coffee”, page 234

   These rules prescribed such sensible observances as 9 o’clock bedtime, the opening of windows top and bottom for the night, a 7 o’clock hour for rising, brief morning exercises, elimination of tea and coffée, smoking and other harmful habits, plenty of exercise in the open air and great care as to bodily cleanliness.

   1914, “Guarding the Schoolchildren’s Health”, in The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living, page 11, column 2

   Maurice de Walese, journalist: “I believe that the marriage between races, slightly different, helps to neutralize defects and purify the blood… But only within the limits of the white race… In café au lait we have a softening of the coffée, but not of the milk.”

   1967, Sex and Race: The Old World, →ISBN, pages 231–232