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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

Designed by Dean Maltz, a New York City architect, the handblown carafe is $260.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

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

She tipped the carafe of water and refilled Mia’s glass.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Its glass carafes appeal to eco-anxious consumers who want to eradicate microplastics from their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Just as they did in Beethoven's time, euphoric revellers still spill out onto the paths of the otherwise sleepy outskirts in the vine-lined Viennese hillsides after a few carafes of white- or red-wine spritzers.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

And in my seminar rooms these past few weeks, my classmates and I hydrated all day long from large carafes filled directly from the tap, with nary a cube in sight.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2023

“I also check the temperature of the water and use preheated carafes and utensils to make the most stable cup of coffee I can,” he says.

From Seattle Times May 11, 2022

Laila was in the kitchen, making carafes of dogh with Giti.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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