macchiato

plural macchiatos · plural rare macchiati

1. countableuncountableEspresso topped with steamed milk.

   Kadar Al-Jahani glanced around at the rich Romans and the American tourists sipping their macchiati and cappuccini, and smiled.

   2004, David A Rollins, Sword of Allah, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2005, →ISBN, page 109

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   Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano.

   1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022

   This is a city obsessed by coffee. Sydneysiders can tell their arabica from their robusta, their macchiati from their ristretti, and have been known to follow their favourite barista from café to café.

   2004, Pat Nourse, “Cafés, Bars & Pubs”, in Cath Phillips et al., editors, Time Out Sydney, 4th edition, London: Ebury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 126, column 1

   Janie and I are having a couple of macchiati in Carluccio’s and discussing Judith Levine’s best-seller Not Buying It – A Year Without Shopping.

   2006 August 12, Rosie Millard, “Leftovers in a Lidl bag – this must be a trip to remember”, in save&spend (The Independent), London, page 6, column 1

   The book’s contents are for the most part the result of scribbling on napkins over numerous macchiati and espressos away from the office at different posts over the years.

   2010, Vladimir Alvarado, Eduardo Manrique, “Preface”, in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies, Burlington, Mass.: Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page vii

   Yellow cabs whizzed past, horns blared and people didn’t stop moving as they walked briskly down the sidewalks with their steaming cups of macchiato, mobile phones and iPods.

   2014, Holly Martin, chapter 11, in One Hundred Proposals, Richard, Surrey: CARINA, Harlequin (UK) Limited, published 2015, →ISBN, page 190

2. USabbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of latte macchiato.