Meaning of café royale | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Coffee with brandy, sometimes served with spices, cream, etc.; (countable) a serving of this beverage.
   uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of café royale.
   alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Come here and sit down. Have a cigar and a café royale.”

“Café royale was also a favourite beverage with them—a cup of strong black coffee with brandy, the latter being bought separate in a bottle. The coffee could be doctored to any degree of strength. At first, my shipmates would take one portion of brandy, a swallow of café royale, and in would go another, and so it continued until each bottle was emptied.”

“We had a café royale—with Lanagan pouring his thimble-full of cognac in my glass—and Morton left.”

““I’ve got a little real good brandy in my tent. Like to drop over and have a café royale?””

“Sherry before dinner—when in her fury she had thought it impossible to face her mother’s stupid guests—and a cognac after dinner to satisfy Peter Knorr’s whimsy for a café royale had fanned Hope Borden’s smoldering anger against that intolerably rude boy downstairs.”

“He followed this with a thick and tender small steak, soufflé potatoes, asparagus hollandaise, a tossed green salad and zabaglione, along with a café royale for a finisher.”

“I took her coat, built up the fire, and fixed her a café royale while she stood in front of the fire.”

“There was alwavs steady drinking, in the middle of the night should he awaken, before breakfast, and during it, when he turned his coffee into a café royale with brandy, at lunchtime and at the cocktail hour, and of course, a nightcap.”

“Burning with a gem-like flame in a spoon warmed by the hot coffee, a cube of sugar is set ablaze with cognac to make a café royale.”

“After-dinner demitasse cups of coffee can be great fun, either a café brûlot or a café royale. Café royale is so simple that it really doesn’t require a recipe. Just place a lump of sugar in a teaspoon of cognac, ignite the cognac over a demitasse cup of coffee, and then lower the spoon slowly into the cup.”

“He was at a banquette in the Stag Bar, with a café royale and sixteen registration cards, when a man who looked like a shy Milquetoast, a bookkeeper with an inferiority complex, deposited his brief case on the leather cushion beside the Marshal.”

“He watched her as she took a sip of the steaming coffee, wondering how long she had been in the kitchen, how many cups of café royale she had had already.”

“Anne ordered a café royale while Peter had hot chocolate with brandy.”

“Tiny cups of café royale were served in the carpeted parlor after dinner, with the wonder of an infinitesimal silver spoon on each saucer!”

“(His father has since discovered that brandy and medicine mix just fine, and at 81 he will not turn down a café royale.)”

“Special dishes like prawns, salami, asparagus, and dry-cured hams are served with all the lamb one can eat, topped off with café royale and singing.”

“Come here and sit down. Have a cigar and a cafe royale.”

“Bill Reed, inside the tank, heaved a sigh of relief, imbibed a cafe royale, smoked a cigaret, turned on the radio, and lay down on a cot.”

“Dawdling over a cafe royale in our fur-lined slit trench, we can depend on advertising to keep the home folks up to date on combat conditions.”

“Also from Holland, a giant copper coffee urn on a brass stand with an alcohol burner. The urn holds eight cups. In exact replica is a baby one that holds half a pint (no burner). A cafe royale set, also in copper, has a drip pot and brass tray.”

“Poking out of her tail, ghostlier than the flame over a cafe royale, was the evil blue glow of her jet.”

“I picked up one of the cups and sipped a Cafe Royale.”

““You fetch me coffee. And brandy. Cafe royale.””

“Dorothy Stinnette, who plays in soap operas “As the World Turns” and “Love of Life” and has had Broadway and Hollywood experience, is refreshing as the Irish maid “Kate” and Susan Lehman as La Passionell, Sarina’s one-time roommate “tells all” in a very funny scene in the third act when a apot^([sic]) of cafe royale is served to her at breakfast and she unbends under its “well-roasted, full-bodied flavor.””

“So give your oversea buyer the full treatment from soup to nuts, then embellish your offer with a sort of cafe royale, or creme de la creme, by making your offers not a trite matter of figures, but translate it in terms of how to profit with joy.”

“In the evening at Louise’s, many boarders played muz, a traditional Basque card game, and instead of money they often bet cups of cafe royale, a potent mix of coffee and Harvey’s Bristol Cream.”

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