CAPPUCCINO Definition & Meaning

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cappuccino

[ kap-oo-chee-noh, kah-poo-; Italian kahp-poot-chee-naw ]

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noun

plural cappuccinos

a hot beverage consisting of espresso and foamed milk, often served with powdered cinnamon and topped with whipped cream.

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noun

coffee with steamed milk, sometimes served with whipped cream or sprinkled with powdered chocolate

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of cappuccino¹

First recorded in 1945–50; from Italian: literally, “capuchin,” so called from a fancied resemblance of the drink's color to the color of a Capuchin habit; Capuchin ( def )

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of cappuccino¹

Italian: capuchin

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At an M&S Cafe in central London that the BBC visited, Matthew Wilsher has just got a cappuccino to go.

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Between sips of cappuccino, his creative spirit sparkles as he discusses Chronos and the Greek concept of emotional time.

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There were free lattes, cappuccinos and matcha drinks for parents.

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I remember staring at you with your yellow legal pad in a Paris hotel lobby while we drank cappuccinos and you wrote that four-page monologue for my character in “Inland Empire.”

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And then the British started calling everything a ... flat white, and then the Australians started calling their cappuccinos “Gibraltars.”

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