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See also: coffeehouse and coffee house
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]coffee-house (plural coffee-houses)
- Alternative form of coffeehouse
- 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.
- 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] IV.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 50:
- He did not conceive how, upon so solemn a day, they could permit this fine church to be converted into a Roman coffee-house, where people met for pleasure; […]