Meaning of café au lait | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mixture of coffee and hot milk.
   countable, uncountable
2. Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink.
   countable, uncountable
3. A light coffee colour.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“Seen all of a piece like⟳ this, in a picture that fits snugly into the lens of any camera, Kersey is a peaceful, multi-coloured Toytown of a village, whose red-tiled roofs are subdued by just the right amount of weathering and lichen, and whose overhanging gables thrust forward⟳ in a quiet brilliance of red-and-yellow ochre, pink, white and café-au-lait.”

“Iced cafe au laits are a wonderful way to enjoy⟳ coffee during the summertime and the addition of lavender adds a special floral touch⟳.”

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