单词 | kafenion |
释义 | ‖ kafenion|kæfəˈniːən| [Gr. καϕενεῖον.] A Greek coffee-house or café. In the Greek word the final -n is often dropped in the spoken form (thus quot. 1939). The Gr. pl. form is καϕενεῖα.
1939E. Ambler Mask of Dimitrios iv. 63 It took another week, a week of waiting, of sitting in kafenios, of being introduced to thirsty gentlemen with connections in the municipal offices. 1964Punch 24 June 925/2 They overflowed the local kafenion. 1967J. Eastwood Little Dragon from Peking xiii. 130 The kind of reception accorded to a woman unaccompanied in, say, a male-dominated, male-preserve Kafenion in rural Greece. 1974‘M. Yorke’ Mortal Remains i. vii. 24 There was a Kafenion on the water-front, so he sat at a table..and ordered coffee. |

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