cafe au lait

1. 1.

   equal parts of coffee and hot milk

   Broadercoffee

Questions about cafe au lait

What does cafe au lait mean?

cafe au lait means "equal parts of coffee and hot milk".

Is cafe au lait a common word?

cafe au lait is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.