coffee cup (kofekup)

A cup from which coffee coffee is drunk, distinctively about one third larger than a tea-cup of the same set. coffee-house (kof'e-hous), n. A house of entertainment where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and sometimes with lodging; a café. Coffee-houses in Great Britain formerly held a position somewhat similar to that of the club-houses of the present day. Although they be destitute of Taverns, yet they have their Coffa - houses , which something resembles them. Sandys , Travailes, p. 51. The coffee -house must not be dismi ed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution.. The coffee - houses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself.. Every man of the upper or middle cla went daily to his coffee house to learn the news and discu it. Every coffee - house had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd IMG:content-0753.jpg:[blocks in formation] cf. order, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 298. Bot make to the [thee] a mancioun & that is my wylle, A cofer [ark] closed of tres, clanlych planed; Wyrk wonez [dwellings] therinne for wylde & for tame. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 310. There he found in the knyghtes cofer But even halfe a pounde. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 52). He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers. Bacon , Advice to Villiers. 2. In arch., a sunk panel or compartment in a ceiling or soffit, of an ornamental character, IMG:content-0754.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary coffer