pousse-café

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pousse-café

/ˌpuːskaˈfeɪ/ UK
/ˌpuskæˈfeɪ/ US

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From French pousse-café (literally “coffee-pusher”).

noun pousse-cafés

A digestif consumed after the coffee course. Mlle. Solange was horrified; but Barty insisted on waiting on the old gentleman in person, and helped him to his coffee and pousse‑café with all the humorous grace I can so well imagine, and handed him the Indépendance Belge, and went back to superintend the arrangements for the coming play.
Similar: chasse-café
A drink composed of several layers of different-coloured liqueurs. When I go back to New York, some of my friends seem to be layered with drugs, from the top down, like a pousse-café: Rogaine on top, then Prozac, then Xanax, then Viagra. . . .

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@misc{pousse_cafe_2026,
  title = {pousse-café},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pousse-caf%C3%A9},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}