coffee au lait

English

Etymology

Partial calque of French café au lait.

Noun

coffee au lait

1. Alternative form of café au lait
   • 1940, Dernell Every, “The Editor Goes Roaming”, in The Riposte, volume 5, number 5, page 3:

     We stopped for coffee au lait near the old French Market, took a walk out to the levee and then back to the Court of the Three Sisters to sit out under the trees, drink beer and talk fencing until the moon began to yawn.

   • 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in Dubin’s Lives:

     He left her lying on her stomach, wound in a sheer nightgown, the coffee au lait birthmark on her buttock a blemished island, visible when it was too hot for sheet or blanket.