café au laitの英語

語源

Borrowed from French café au lait (literally “coffee with milk”).

発音

• IPA: /ˌkæfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/, /kæˌfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

名詞

café au lait (countable and uncountable, plural café au laits or cafés au lait)

1. A mixture of coffee and hot milk.

   Coordinate terms: caffè latte, latte, café noir

   • 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 164:

     It was like using a language I'd once known but had nearly forgotten, a language having to do with customs that had long before passed out of the world: café au lait at an outdoor table, with a brioche, absinthe in a tall glass, or shrimp in a cornucopia of newspaper; things I'd once read about but had never seen.

2. Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink.
3. A light coffee colour.

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   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 240:

     Seen all of a piece like this, in a picture that fits snugly into the lens of any camera, Kersey is a peaceful, multi-coloured Toytown of a village, whose red-tiled roofs are subdued by just the right amount of weathering and lichen, and whose overhanging gables thrust forward in a quiet brilliance of red-and-yellow ochre, pink, white and café-au-lait.

使用する際の注意点

Oxford Canadian Spelling indicates the preferred plural form is cafés au lait.

派生語

• café au lait birthmark
• café au lait macule
• café au lait spot

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