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cafetiere

/ ˌkæfəˈtɪə; ˌkæfəˈtjɛə /

noun

  1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water is poured onto ground coffee and a plunger fitted with a metal filter is pressed down, forcing the grounds to the bottom
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cafetiere1

C20: from French ڱپè coffeepot
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“For example, if you’re an instant-coffee drinker, something as simple as switching to roast and ground and making a really great cafetiere in the morning is a huge leap forward in coffee quality.”

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“It’s just a slightly more modern version of a ڱپè,” he says.

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People came out of their houses to hand us paper cups of homemade wine, bottles of water, espresso poured right out of a big stovetop cafetiere and served with freshly baked biscotti, which we ate and drank in the saddle while the horses kept walking.

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There is a cafetiere inside the hotel room.

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They include “Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair”; a self-portrait from London; the four huge, tilted portraits of Madame Cézanne in a red dress; the insouciant “Boy in a Red Waistcoat”; “Woman with a Cafetière”; “Man in a Blue Smock”; and the celebrated portrait of Ambroise Vollard.

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