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café au lait





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Along with easy access to croissants and café au lait, our heroes have the benefit of not having to wax patriotic about a country in which they no longer live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

This month, Quinta Brunson, the star and creator of the hit sitcom “Abbott Elementary,” hosted the Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony wearing a structured Gaurav Gupta design the color of café au lait.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

The new range of covers come in seven sizes of four colours: berry, cinnamon, caramel and café au lait.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022

A self-styled intellectual who worshipped New Wave cinema, he adored his mother, a reader of classical French literature with whom he would linger for hours in the morning over café au lait, croissants, and cigarettes.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019

Maman Thibaut has been dosing Amélie with café au lait at the big kitchen table.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein


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