What does coffee-house mean?

coffee-house

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.80 in modern English

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"[…] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next."
"He did not conceive how, upon so solemn a day, they could permit this fine church to be converted into a Roman coffee-house, where people met for pleasure; […]"

coffee-houses (plural)

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