demi-tasse

Example Sentences

• "He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences."
• "The lady in this painting obviously is not in the mood for coffee; she looks away from her demi-tasse with disarming absent-mindedness, her expression is wistfully, even painfully contemplative, though somewhat marred by the loss of an eye."
• "At four-thirty the diners relinquished their demi-tasses to Carrington and returned to the living room for the afternoon session."
• "At another time, we lunched at a café where ladies sat alone at tables smoking cigarettes with their demi-tasses while men in the back of the room sang passionate Italian love songs."
• "After dinner, they were in the habit of taking their demi-tasses into the drawingroom where green logs, smouldering thinly in the grate, gave ample reason for those damp patches on walls and ceiling, […]"
• "Others had gone to the cellar but when the dukes continued to calmly sip their demi-tasses, Mary had decided she would, too."