pousse-café

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpuːskaˈfeɪ/    美 /ˌpuskæˈfeɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A digestif consumed after the coffee course.
    — Mlle. Solange was horrified; but Barty insisted on waiting on the old gentleman in person, and helped him to his coffee and pousse‑café with all the humorous grace I can so well imagine, and handed him the Indépendance Belge, and went back to superintend the arrangements for the coming play.
  2. A drink composed of several layers of different-coloured liqueurs.
    — When I go back to New York, some of my friends seem to be layered with drugs, from the top down, like a pousse-café: Rogaine on top, then Prozac, then Xanax, then Viagra. . . .

词形变化

pousse-cafés plural

词源

From French pousse-café (literally “coffee-pusher”).
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