cortado

plural cortados

1. countableuncountableEspresso served with warm milk.

   "[…] and a couple of espressos. Make the lady's a cortado, you know, the way you add just a touch of steamed milk."

   2021, Florencia Mallon, Beyond the Ties of Blood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

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   There's a long day of eating ahead, so start your morning lightly with a cup of cortado (a strong macchiato-like coffee) and a potato-and-egg tortilla, which you can find expertly prepared in almost any tavern, from smoky dive bars to designy hotel cafes.

   2007 November 18, Denny Lee, “36 Hours in San Sebastián”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2013

   We ordered a couple of shots and a couple of cortados and sat by the narrow, unglazed arch that overlooked the reservoir. 'To Yvan,' he declared, and I raised my aguardiente to his, chinking glasses to the insincere memory of one of our own [Yvan].

   2009, Chris Haslam, Twelve-Step Fandango, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 93

   On a recent Thursday afternoon, the park was filled with tech workers taking lunch breaks. Some paced back and forth while discussing the latest A.I. regulations on their AirPods between sips of cortado.

   2025 August 4, Eli Tan, “The Insider’s Guide to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025