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Definition of COFFEEHOUSE

Coffeehouse
Coffeehouse Cof"fee*house`, n. 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.

Meaning of COFFEEHOUSE from wikipedia

- A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café (French: [kafe] ), is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino...
- Look up coffeehouse or coffee house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A coffeehouse is an establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other...
- In 17th- and 18th-century England, coffeehouses served as public social places where men would meet for conversation and commerce. For the price of a penny...
- This list of notable coffeehouse chains catalogues the spread and markets share of coffeehouses world-wide. This list excludes the many companies which...
- The Ottoman coffeehouse (Ottoman Turkish: قهوه‌خانه, romanized: kahvehane), or Ottoman café, was a distinctive part of the culture of the Ottoman Empire...
- A coffeehouse is a social event, often held to raise funds for and/or generate awareness of a social cause or other event. The name "coffeehouse" is derived...
- GI coffeehouses were coffeehouses set up as part of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War era as a method of fostering antiwar and anti-military...
- supply-chain relations with the world's largest coffeehouse chains and enterprises. These coffeehouses play a prominent role in supporting developing economies...
- musicians, intellectuals, bon vivants and their financiers met. The Habsburg coffeehouses were then largely deprived of their cultural base by the Holocaust and...
- The Coffeehouse of Ashiks (Persian: قهوه‌خانه عاشیقلار, Azerbaijani: Aşıqlar Qəhvəsi) is a coffeehouse in cities of Azerbaijan where ashiks perform Turkish...