Definition of Coffee filter

1. Noun. Filter (usually of paper) that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds.

Generic synonyms: Filter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Filter

coffee bar
coffee bars
coffee bean
coffee beans
coffee berry
coffee blight
coffee break
coffee breaks
coffee cake
coffee can
coffee capuccino
coffee cream
coffee culture
coffee cup
coffee fern
coffee filter (current term)
coffee fungus
coffee grinder
coffee grinders
coffee grounds
coffee house
coffee houses
coffee klatch
coffee klatches
coffee liqueur
coffee liqueurs
coffee machine
coffee maker
coffee makers
coffee mill

Literary usage of Coffee filter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"In 1911, Edward Aborn, of New York, was granted a United States patent on his Make-Right coffee-filter device. This was later incorporated with improvements ..."

2. The Table: How to Buy Food, how to Cook it and how to Serve it by Alexander Filippini (1889)
"Have a clean French coffee- filter ready on the hot range; place in it four and a half ounces of freshly ground coffee, as for No. 1349; then gradually pour ..."

3. Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping by Estelle Woods Wilcox (1877)
"VIENNA COFFEE. Filter instead of boiling the coffee, allowing one table-spoon ground coffee to each person and "one for the pot;" put a quart of cream into ..."

4. The Thorough Good Cook: A Series of Chats on the Culinary Art, and Nine by George Augustus Sala (1896)
"Have a clean French coffee filter ready on the hot range; weigh out four and a half ounces of freshly ground coffee; put the coffee on the filter, ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1880)
"The lower, somewhat narrowed and flanged end of t is closed by a piece of filter paper as recommended by Tollens, preferably the German " coffee filter ..."

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