Turkish coffee

A sweetened brew of pulverized coffee.

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Turkish coffee

(Cookery) very strong black coffee made with finely ground coffee beans

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Turk′ish cof′fee

a strong, usu. sweetened coffee, made by boiling pulverized coffee beans.

[1915–20]

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Turkish coffee - a drink made from pulverized coffee beans; usually sweetened

coffee, java - a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee"

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He tried to analyse the trick, to find a clue to it in the way the chairs and tables were grouped, in the fact that only two Jacqueminot roses (of which nobody ever bought less than a dozen) had been placed in the slender vase at his elbow, and in the vague pervading perfume that was not what one put on handkerchiefs, but rather like the scent of some far-off bazaar, a smell made up of Turkish coffee and ambergris and dried roses.

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