The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
COFFEEHOUSE
cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar
(noun) a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)
An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
Hypernyms
• house
Source: Wiktionary
Cof"fee*house`, n.
Definition: A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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