coffeehouse

See also: coffee house and coffee-house

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Etymology

From coffee +‎ house.

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Noun

coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)

  1. An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
    Synonym: coffee shop
    Hypernym: house
    • 1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin, London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3:
      […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.
    • 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 9 May 2012:
      In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.

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