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coffee house

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cof·fee·house also coffee house  (kôf-hous, kf-)
n.
A restaurant where coffee and other refreshments are served, especially one where people gather for conversation, games, or musical entertainment.
coffee house
n
(Business / Commerce) a place where coffee is served, esp one that was a fashionable meeting place in 18th-century London


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For the same reason I don't make all my journey in one day, but divide it into two days, and get a bed to-night at the Travellers' Coffee House down by the railroad (a nice clean house), and go back Parliamentary, at six in the morning.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
One particular social institution of the period should be mentioned for its connection with literature, namely the coffee houses, which, introduced about the middle of the century, soon became very popular and influential.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
I wish I only knew who his friends were,' muttered Sampson, filling his pocket with papers; 'if they'd just get up a pretty little Commission de lunatico at the Gray's Inn Coffee House and give me the job, I'd be content to have the lodgings empty for one while, at all events.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
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