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单词 café au lait
释义

café au lait

English

Alternative forms

  • coffee au lait, cafe au lait

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkæfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/, /kæˌfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

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, The Handmaid's Tale, Toronto: 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. (color) A light coffee colour.
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Usage notes

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

Derived terms

  • café au lait spot

Translations

References

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

Danish

Alternative forms

  • cafe au lait

Etymology

From French café au lait (coffee with milk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kafeolɛ/, [kʰafeoˈlɛ]

Noun

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

Further reading

  • café au lait” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • café au lait on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.fe o lɛ/
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Noun

café au lait m (plural cafés au lait)

  1. white coffee
    Deux cafés au lait, s'il vous plait.

Coordinate terms

  • latté

Descendants

  • Danish: café au lait
  • English: café au lait
  • Mandarin: 咖啡歐蕾 (kāfēiōulěi)

Adjective

café au lait (invariable)

  1. Light brown
    Une peau café au lait.
    A light brown skin.
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