café au lait

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

café au laits plural cafés au lait plural coffee au lait alternative cafe au lait alternative

词源

Borrowed from French café au lait (literally “coffee with milk”).
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