Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop where coffee is sold.
- noun An inferior sort of coffee-house.
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Examples
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Start drafting those coffee-shop and restaurant resumes to keep you afloat while you put in long thankless, underutilized hours as an unpaid intern.
Taliesin Gilkes-Bower: What if The DJ Were The NGO? Taliesin Gilkes-Bower 2011
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This sounds terribly wasteful, but necessary: I have a pay-and-talk phone for my coffee-shop writing or walks.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Internet, Your Brain, Your Writerly Self 2010
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"It's a head-on attack," said Gerrit Jan ten Bloemendal, a coffee-shop owner and vice chairman of the Netherlands Cannabis Platform, an advocacy group.
Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown Stanley Pignal 2010
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Start drafting those coffee-shop and restaurant resumes to keep you afloat while you put in long thankless, underutilized hours as an unpaid intern.
Taliesin Gilkes-Bower: What if The DJ Were The NGO? Taliesin Gilkes-Bower 2011
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Split: Jake Gyllenhaal, 30, and Taylor Swift, 21, after a two-month series of picturesque coffee-shop and apple-picking sightings that seemed mostly crafted to amuse and divert celebrity-gossip addicts through the holidays.
Love, etc.: Carlos Santana gets hitched; Swyllenhaal is kaput The Reliable Source 2011
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Thank you merciful Lord for sparing us another batch of crickety coffee-shop escapees like last season's mess.
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I love my cappuccino or latte or other coffee-shop beverage.
The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011
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Just a little quiet for a second so she could hear the music in the background, so she could close her eyes and take a deep breath of coffee-shop air and then, maybe, the sinking would stop.
X, Chapter 2: Min Benjamin Matvey 2012
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Also unflappable, including an inauspiciously silly early scene in which she mediates her way out of a coffee-shop holdup.
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In the morning I ate the dirty coffee-shop corn muffin -- small inflated discs, toasted and drenched in butter, wrapped up in foil and stacked on the flat plastic lid of lousy coffee -- in my cubby, and then had my first cigarette, which is how I knew the meal was over.
Stephanie Sandberg: New Jersey State of Mind Stephanie Sandberg 2011
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