Definitions
a medium brown to dark-brown color
Word origin
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
Used in a sentence
“He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.”
“The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…].”
“The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Bean-based drink”6 letters
02“Beverage from beans”6 letters
03“Bitter morning brew”6 letters
04“Brew from roasted beans”6 letters
05“Brew in a mug”6 letters
06“Caffeinated brew”6 letters
07“Caffeinated morning cup”6 letters
08“Hot brewed drink”6 letters
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