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Coffee cup   /kˈɑfi kəp/   Listen
Coffee cup

noun
1.
A cup from which coffee is drunk.





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"Coffee cup" Quotes from Famous Books



... roll it out thinly. Take a coffee cup and turning it upside down stamp out some rounds. Turn the cup the right way again, and put it on a round. Then you will see an edge of paste protruding all round. Turn this up with the end of a fork, which makes a pretty little edge. Do this with all, and fill ...
— The Belgian Cookbook • various various
... ate, they busied themselves about one thing and another around the cabin, until at last the Colonel set down the empty coffee cup, and spoke. ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... many years ago," the pasha murmured, putting down his coffee cup and selecting another cigarette. "Not long after her mother's marriage to me.... A very charming little girl—I was positively attached ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley
... be severe, and failed so delightfully that he assured her he was going to put down his coffee cup and come over and kiss her. But when she threatened that if he misbehaved she would not stir out of the house again for a week he sighed and finished his ...
— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory
... of his monologue Berger Sven Persson glanced over at Halvor, who sat at the table, looking glum and sulky, his coffee cup untouched. ...
— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof
... in some circles, is simply a "world of women." Why does the husband, thus neglected, get out of going to the occasional party whenever he can, and when he does allow himself to be dragged thither, why does he sulk, leaning against a chilly mantel-piece, eying his fragile coffee cup with disdain, and enacting the role of martyr generally, until he can persuade his wife to go home again? Why, indeed; but because he feels out of place. His rare and incidental appearance is a journey into a far country, of which he has little knowledge, and in which he has no interest. ...
— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton


Words linked to "Coffee cup" :   handgrip, demitasse, grip, handle, cup, hold


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