coffee-house

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Noun

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coffee-house (plural coffee-houses)

  1. 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; []