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café au lait

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French café au lait (literally “coffee with milk”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌkæfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/, /kæˌfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

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café au lait (countable and uncountable, plural café au laits or cafés au lait)

  1. A mixture of coffee and hot milk.
    Coordinate terms: caffè latte, latte, café noir
    • 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 164:
      It was like using a language I'd once known but had nearly forgotten, a language having to do with customs that had long before passed out of the world: café au lait at an outdoor table, with a brioche, absinthe in a tall glass, or shrimp in a cornucopia of newspaper; things I'd once read about but had never seen.
  2. Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink.
  3. A light coffee colour.
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Usage notes

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Oxford Canadian Spelling indicates the preferred plural form is cafés au lait.[1]

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  1. ^ Robert Pontisso and Eric Sinkins, editors (1999), Oxford Canadian Spelling, Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 72, column 1

Danish

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Etymology

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From French café au lait (“coffee with milk”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kafeolɛ/, [kʰafeoˈlɛ]

Noun

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café au lait c (singular definite café au laiten or café au lait'en, plural indefinite café au laiter or café au lait'er)

  1. café au lait

Inflection

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Declension of café au lait
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative café au lait café au laiten
café au lait'en 		café au laiter
café au lait'er 		café au laiterne
café au lait'erne
genitive café au laits café au laitens
café au lait'ens 		café au laiters
café au lait'ers 		café au laiternes
café au lait'ernes

Further reading

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Noun

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café au lait m (plural cafés au lait)

  1. white coffee, coffee with milk
    Deux cafés au lait, s’il vous plait.
    Two white coffees, please.

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Descendants

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Adjective

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café au lait (invariable)

  1. light brown, café au lait
    une peau café au lait ― light brown skin
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