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Coffeehouse   /kˈɔfihˌaʊs/   Listen
noun
Coffeehouse  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."






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"Coffeehouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... in taverns, alehouses, coffeehouses, and cellars, be severely looked unto as the common sin of the time, and greatest occasion of dispersing the plague. And that no company or person be suffered to remain or come into any tavern, alehouse, or coffeehouse, to drink, after nine of the clock in the evening, according to the ancient law and custom of this city, upon ...
— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe

... you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then, go not far to dine: You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old a-ches[2] throb, your hollow tooth will rage; Sauntering in coffeehouse is Dulman seen; He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile the South, rising with dabbled wings, A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift



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