coffee-makerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• coffee maker, coffee-maker

語源

From coffee +‎ maker.

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名詞

coffeemaker (plural coffeemakers)

1. A person who makes coffee.

   Synonyms: coffeeman, coffeewoman

   • 1681, Thomas De Laune, The Present State of London, page 113:

     Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.

   • 1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book, page 35:

     If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.

   • 1892, Kirk Munroe, Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy, page 47:

     To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.

   • 2018, Katerina Tsemperlidou, translated by Alexandra Kalapothaki, Greek Women are Goddesses, AKAKIA Publications, →ISBN:

     One of the tests by which a Greek goddess is measured is the quality of her Greek coffee. There are many ways to prepare it, and a flawless result is uncontestable proof of proper technique. Medium, sweet, plain, “heavy” and sweet, “heavy” with no sugar, with or without a film of foamy bubbles are some of the many variations of an expert coffee maker. Can she prepare good coffee? She’s a goddess!

2. Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.
   • 1883, A Cup of Coffee‎, London, page 79:

     There is also the Fountain coffee-maker, in which a body of steam, passing upwards through the body of ground coffee, carries over the infusion, which collects in a chamber.

   • 2005, Bill Schneider, Second Chapter:

     As he poured water into the coffeemaker, Ben watched several deer grazing ... While the coffeemaker gurgled, Ben remained entranced by the deer.

参考

• coffeemaker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia