Cafe

Japanese: カフェ

〘 noun 〙 (café)⸨ Coffee⸩① Coffee. ※Beio Kairan Jitsuroku (1877)〈Kume Kunitake〉 2 "The things that came from West India were cane sugar, tobacco, coffee , cotton, leather, rubber, etc."② (a) A coffee shop that mainly served coffee. ※Utakata no Ki (1890)〈Mori Ogai〉 1 "I entered a shop called 'Caffe Minerva' across from the school." (b) A Western-style restaurant seen in Japan from the end of the Meiji period to the early Showa period, where waitresses entertained customers and offered them Western alcohol. It had elements of today's cabarets, bars, coffee shops, etc. ※Shakai Hyakumenso (1902)〈Uchida Roan〉 A stylish gentleman "I have yet to be scolded by the chargé d'affaires for upsetting a woman at a coffee shop!"

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Japanese:

〘名〙 (café)⸨カフェー⸩① コーヒー。※米欧回覧実記（1877）〈久米邦武〉二「西印度より来るものは、蔗糖、煙草、加非(カッフェー)、棉花、皮革、樹膠(ゴム)等なり」②(イ) コーヒーを中心にした喫茶店。※うたかたの記（1890）〈森鴎外〉上「学校の向ひなる、『カッフェエ、ミネルワ』といふ店に入りて」(ロ) 女給が接待し洋酒等を飲ませる、明治末から昭和初期の日本に見られた洋風の飲食店。現在のキャバレー、バー、喫茶店等の要素をあわせ持っていた。※社会百面相（1902）〈内田魯庵〉ハイカラ紳士「未だ僕は珈琲店(カフェー)の女の臍繰を巻上げて代理公使から叱られた事は無い！」

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