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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR DEMITASSE
Nothing but some ice cream and a demitasse for me, declared Ronny.
She dropped a lump of sugar in her demitasse and threw her host a bright smile across the table.
Mr. Ellins gets left again when he calls for a demitasse after the tapioca pudding.
Miss Liz presently asked—for dinner at the Colonel's was of the farm variety which scorned the demitasse.
WORD ORIGIN
also demi-tasse, 1842, from French, literally "half-cup," from demi- + tasse, an Old French borrowing from Arabic tassah, from Persian tasht "cup, saucer" (cf. Italian tazza, Spanish taza "cup").
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