pousse-café

plural pousse-cafés

1. A digestif consumed after the coffee course.

   Mlle. Solange was horrified; but Barty insisted on waiting on the old gentleman in person, and helped him to his coffee and pousse‑café with all the humorous grace I can so well imagine, and handed him the Indépendance Belge, and went back to superintend the arrangements for the coming play.

   1898, George du Maurier, The Martian

   Synonyms: chasse-café

2. A drink composed of several layers of different-coloured liqueurs.

   When I go back to New York, some of my friends seem to be layered with drugs, from the top down, like a pousse-café: Rogaine on top, then Prozac, then Xanax, then Viagra. . . .

   1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker