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carafe

[kuh-raf, -rahf] / kəˈræf, -ˈrɑf /








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The tea-hued coffee, which he presented in an individual carafe over an ice sphere, tasted like Raisinets and wound up being the highlight of my search.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“It’s not about me,” he said before fishing a malaria pill out of his suit pocket and chasing it with borrowed coffee from a nearby carafe.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

It's simple, drip Intelligentsia, but it's served cold in a carafe alongside a glass packed with crushed ice, and, if you like, a smaller carafe of cream and a complementary slice of coffee cake.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2023

On this day she brought leftover kebabs, a carafe of Turkish coffee and a prayer rug.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

“Stop!” she cried, “don’t sing that. I don’t want you to sing it,” and she laid her glass so impetuously and blindly upon the table as to shatter it against a carafe.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin