café au lait
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French café au lait (literally “coffee with milk”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌkæfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/, /kæˌfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
[edit]café au lait (countable and uncountable, plural café au laits or cafés au lait)
- A mixture of coffee and hot milk.
- Coordinate terms: caffè latte, latte, café noir
- 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 164:
- It was like using a language I'd once known but had nearly forgotten, a language having to do with customs that had long before passed out of the world: café au lait at an outdoor table, with a brioche, absinthe in a tall glass, or shrimp in a cornucopia of newspaper; things I'd once read about but had never seen.
- Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink.
- A light coffee colour.
- café au lait:
Usage notes
[edit]Oxford Canadian Spelling indicates the preferred plural form is cafés au lait.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]coffee with milk
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colour
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References
[edit]- ^ Robert Pontisso and Eric Sinkins, editors (1999), Oxford Canadian Spelling, Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 72, column 1
Danish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French café au lait (“coffee with milk”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]café au lait c (singular definite café au laiten or café au lait'en, plural indefinite café au laiter or café au lait'er)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of café au lait
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | café au lait | café au laiten café au lait'en |
café au laiter café au lait'er |
café au laiterne café au lait'erne |
genitive | café au laits | café au laitens café au lait'ens |
café au laiters café au lait'ers |
café au laiternes café au lait'ernes |
Further reading
[edit]- “café au lait” in Den Danske Ordbog
café au lait on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]café au lait m (plural cafés au lait)
- white coffee, coffee with milk
- Deux cafés au lait, s’il vous plait.
- Two white coffees, please.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: café au lait
- → English: café au lait
- → Mandarin: 咖啡歐蕾/咖啡欧蕾 (kāfēiōulěi)
Adjective
[edit]café au lait (invariable)
- light brown, café au lait
- une peau café au lait ― light brown skin
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