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Definition of Café au lait
1. Noun. Equal parts of coffee and hot milk.
Definition of Café au lait
1. Noun. A mixture of coffee and hot milk. ¹
2. Noun. Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink ¹
3. Noun. a light coffee colour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Café Au Lait
Literary usage of Café au lait
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"She had punctiform pigment spots, cafe-au-lait patches, and blue spots over the
neck, trunk, arms and thighs. A sister, aged 5, had cafe-au-lait patches. ..."
2. The History of Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day: Containing (1825)
"... cafe au lait, et un petit pain, cela fait un, fichu diner." After repeating
it several times, he was rebuked by the garde du corps, to whom he replied, ..."
3. Tom Tug and Others: Sketches in a Domestic Menagerie by Alice Murray Dew-Smith (1898)
"... I cannot explain the mysteries of poultry keeping ; but I assure you that that
egg which you are now eating was laid by Cafe-au-lait this morning, ..."
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