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Pousse-cafe   Listen
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Pousse-cafe  n.  A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of several liqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so as to remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials served at any time.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pousse-cafe" Quotes from Famous Books



... them in a song I had kept in mind since boyhood. It was about a young man who took his girl to a fancy ball, and afterward to a restaurant, and though he had but fifty cents and she said she was not hungry, she ate the menu from raw oysters to pousse-cafe, and turned it ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien



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