coffee-shop

plural coffee-shops

1. alternativeAlternative form of coffee shop.

   After his father died his mother ran a coffee-shop for dockers near the gates of the docks.

   1995 January 28, Godfrey Hodgson, “Louis Heren : OBITUARIES”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2021

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   Mr. H. and I, forgetting the Ramazan, went out to hunt for an iced sherbet; but all the coffee-shops were closed until sunset.

   1854 (date written), Bayard Taylor, “Scenes in Konia”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 258

   Over a snack of luncheon—snatched late and hastily at a little uncomfortable coffee-shop near the Griffin—Ronnie’s usual calm returned.

   1922, Gilbert Frankau, chapter XV, in The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, section 6, page 201

   Anne showed great interest in the many Greek coffee-shops, stores, and cabarets, which occupied ancient two-story buildings. I explained to her that many of these coffee-shops are named after certain counties or districts in Greece and that the natives of those areas usually foregather in the coffee-shop named after their place of birth.

   1928, John Drury, “Wednesday”, in Chicago in Seven Days, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, →OCLC, page 91

   She laughs easily, wears no make-up, talks fast and seems effortlessly comfortable with people - even a homeless gent who comes into the coffee-shop demanding change, which she gives.

   1998 March 10, Lucy Broadbent, “Interview: Sophie B Hawkins - The pain that shaped a star Passion”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2016

   THE story goes that in 1957 Jay Pritzker was in a hotel coffee-shop called Fat Eddie's at a Los Angeles airport, and waiting for a flight.

   1999 January 28, “Jay Pritzker”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020