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Latte

//laˈteɪ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam. countable, uncountable

    "Lilian Benedict walked into the office carrying two cups of latte."

  2. 2
    A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.
  3. 3
    strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk wordnet
  4. 4
    A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea). broadly, countable, uncountable

    "matcha latte"

  5. 5
    Affluent leftism. attributive, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable

    "latte liberal"

Etymology

Ellipsis of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”) (faster spelling of caffè (coffe) + e (and) + latte (milk)), ultimately from Latin lac, lactis.

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