cafe royale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Come here and sit down. Have a cigar and a cafe royale.
ref: 1890 November 30, “What Is the Remedy?”, in The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, volume L, number 306, Memphis, Tenn., page 10, column 2:
text: Bill Reed, inside the tank, heaved a sigh of relief, imbibed a cafe royale, smoked a cigaret, turned on the radio, and lay down on a cot.
ref: 1935 May, Frank J. Taylor, “Deep Sea Money Job”, in Alec X. McCausland, editor, The Olympian, volume XXIII, number 5, San Francisco, Calif.: The Olympic Club, page 8, column 3:
text: Dawdling over a cafe royale in our fur-lined slit trench, we can depend on advertising to keep the home folks up to date on combat conditions.
ref: 1944 December 2, Al Hine, “G.I.’s Raise Their Eyebrows at Advertising”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 77, number 49, New York, N.Y.: The Editor & Publisher Company, page 65, column 1:
text: Also from Holland, a giant copper coffee urn on a brass stand with an alcohol burner. The urn holds eight cups. In exact replica is a baby one that holds half a pint (no burner). A cafe royale set, also in copper, has a drip pot and brass tray.
ref: 1953 April 19–25, “It’s New to Us”, in Donald C. Stuart Jr., Dan D. Coyle, editors, Town Topics, volume VIII, number 6, Princeton, N.J., page 8:
text: Poking out of her tail, ghostlier than the flame over a cafe royale, was the evil blue glow of her jet.
ref: 1963 August, Fritz Leiber, “A Hitch in Space”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy Publishing Corp., page 82, column 1:
text: I picked up one of the cups and sipped a Cafe Royale.
ref: 1964, Kenneth Marlowe, “I Was a Problem”, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 25:
text: “You fetch me coffee. And brandy. Cafe royale.”
ref: 1964 July, Robert A[nson] Heinlein, “Farnham’s Freehold”, in Worlds of If, volume 14, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, page 8, column 1:
text: Dorothy Stinnette, who plays in soap operas “As the World Turns” and “Love of Life” and has had Broadway and Hollywood experience, is refreshing as the Irish maid “Kate” and Susan Lehman as La Passionell, Sarina’s one-time roommate “tells all” in a very funny scene in the third act when a apot^([sic]) of cafe royale is served to her at breakfast and she unbends under its “well-roasted, full-bodied flavor.”
ref: 1965 May 14, “Comedy Plays for Two Weeks”, in The Gettysburg Times, volume 63, number 114, Gettysburg, Pa., page nine:
text: So give your oversea buyer the full treatment from soup to nuts, then embellish your offer with a sort of cafe royale, or creme de la creme, by making your offers not a trite matter of figures, but translate it in terms of how to profit with joy.
ref: 1970 January 31, Revan Komaroff, “Long Beach Chamber of Commerce: Trade Tips; On the World Market”, in Independent Press-Telegram, volume III, number 52, Long Beach, Calif., page P-2:
text: In the evening at Louise’s, many boarders played muz, a traditional Basque card game, and instead of money they often bet cups of cafe royale, a potent mix of coffee and Harvey’s Bristol Cream.
ref: 1999, Jacqueline S. Thursby, “[A Real Home Smells Like Garlic and Onion] Boarding Houses and Bootlegging”, in Mother’s Table, Father’s Chair: Cultural Narratives of Basque American Women, Logan, Ut.: Utah State University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Alternative spelling of café royale.