frappuccini
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
frappuccini
- (rare) plural of frappuccino
- 1999 September 20, Mimi Spencer, “Mad, bad and dangerous”, in Evening Standard, London, page 29:
- Where do these people get the energy to live in a constant state of crisis? Something that I don’t know about in their frappuccini?
- 2004, Fresh Cup: The Voice of the Specialty Coffee Industry, volume 13:
- We also need to be open to food and consumption habits different than ours, and welcome the various espresso-based beverages as long as there is an awareness that “lattes” and Frappuccini are something different than “caffe” Italian style.
- 2008, Kerr Houston, “Breve New World: Thoughts on an Emergent Pidgin”, in Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor, Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue (Essays on the English Language from The Vocabula Review), Rockport, Mass.: Vocabula Books, →ISBN, part one (The Essays), page 155:
- Even with these reasons for Starbucks’ peninsular tone in place, though, the merely partial gesture toward Italian style and origin can still grate. If it’s an alignment with Italian practice that they desire, shouldn’t we be able to order three Frappuccini without sounding utterly pretentious?
- 2013 February 13, Agenda, number 1365, BRUZZ:
- The drinks focus mainly on coffee in all its forms, and on chocolate milk, milk shakes, frappuccini, and smoothies (freshly squeezed fruit […]
- 2018, Andrew Wynn Owen, “The Green, The Grey, The Gold”, in The Multiverse, Carcanet Press, →ISBN:
- Unicorn frappuccini, Angry Birds, / And virtual reality – / The Green are lost, but not for words.
- 2019, Michael R. Solomon, Greg W. Marshall, Elnora W. Stuart, Bradley R. Barnes, Vincent Wayne Mitchell, Wendy Tabrizi, Marketing: Real People, Real Decisions, Pearson, →ISBN:
- Recent food craze phenomena have included using black food, which began with black ice-cream and black burgers coloured with charcoal, then purple food coloured by beetroot, rainbow bagels and, more recently, kitsch, multi-coloured unicorn toast and even ‘Unicorn Frappuccini’.