café au lait

名词 n.
中文释义

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

词汇关系

衍生词
café au lait birthmark café au lait macule café au lait spot
相关词
café con leche caffè latte

词源

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