pousse-cafe

1. 1.

   small drink served after dinner (especially several liqueurs poured carefully so as to remain in separate layers)

   Broaderliqueur

Questions about pousse-cafe

What does pousse-cafe mean?

pousse-cafe means "small drink served after dinner (especially several liqueurs poured carefully so as to remain in separate layers)".

How many syllables are in pousse-cafe?

pousse-cafe has 3 syllables and divides as pous-se--cafe under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pousse-cafe a common word?

pousse-cafe 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.