Lexicographical Neighbors of Finjans
Literary usage of Finjans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"Coffee was served to us in gilded china cups, and silver stands or finjans, and
the pipes of the Sheikh and his son were filled and offered to those who had ..."
2. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"To refuse would be a positive and unpardonable insult: hut one has not much to
swallow at a time, for the coffee-cups, or finjans, are about the size of a ..."
3. A Journey to Central Africa, Or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro by Bayard Taylor (1864)
"I waited for the coffee with some trepidation, for I knew we had but "two Turkish
finjans, and a Frank cup was out of the question ..."
4. Travels in Arabia by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Stevens (1892)
"... must add the larger ' finjans,' or coffee-cups, here in fashion. So sure are
men, when debarred of one pleasure or excitement, to make it up by another. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations by Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845)
"She continued to follow her own mode of cure, which now consisted in swallowing
yolks of fresh eggs, sucking oranges by dozens, sipping finjans of strong ..."
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