Definition of Coffee cup

1. Noun. A cup from which coffee is drunk.

Generic synonyms: Cup
Specialized synonyms: Demitasse
Terms within: Grip, Handgrip, Handle, Hold

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Cup

coffeehouses
coffeemaker
coffeemakers
coffeepot
coffeepots
coffees
coffee bar
coffee bean
coffee berry
coffee blight
coffee break
coffee cake
coffee can
coffee capuccino
coffee cream
coffee cup (current term)
coffee fern
coffee filter
coffee fungus
coffee grinder
coffee grounds
coffee liqueur
coffee maker
coffee mill
coffee mug
coffee ring
coffee roll
coffee rose
coffee royal
coffee senna

Literary usage of Coffee cup

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works of Count Rumford by Benjamin Rumford, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1875)
"The whole of this apparatus consists of a coffee-cup, which should hold ... This coffee-cup should be cylindrical, and when employed in making one gill of ..."

2. Recollections of a Private by Warren Lee Goss (2002)
"... with his legs apart, when whiz! went his coffee cup into the air like a shot. 'Who in thunder did that?' yelled the recruit angrily. ..."

3. National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868: Official Catalogue by Ralph N James, L Lefèvre (1868)
"... coffee cup AND SAUCEE, Bose du Barry ground, and medallions of children by ... coffee cup AND SAUCEE, gros bleu, with painted medallion of a female with ..."

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