coffee glass

English

Alternative forms

• coffee-glass

Noun

coffee glass (plural coffee glasses)

1. A type of short, thick glass vessel for serving coffee, especially caffè latte.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 512:

     Two men today I have struck with my fist," said Syed Omar. "One I merely grazed with a coffee-glass."