Meaning of pousse-café | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A digestif consumed after the coffee course.
2. A drink composed of several layers of different-coloured liqueurs.

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Examples

“Mlle. Solange was horrified; but Barty insisted on waiting on the old gentleman in person, and helped him to his coffee and pousse‑café with all the humorous grace I can so well imagine, and handed him the Indépendance Belge, and went back to superintend the arrangements for the coming play.”

“When I go back to New York, some of my friends seem to be layered with drugs, from the top down, like a pousse-café: Rogaine on top, then Prozac, then Xanax, then Viagra. . . .”

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