‖ filtre
(filtr)
[Fr.]
A filtering appliance, fitted over a pot or cup, for making coffee by the passage of boiling water through ground coffee. Also, the coffee so prepared (see café 3).
| 1940 ‘M. Innes’ Secret Vanguard xx. 217 Orchard was..measuring coffee into a filtre. 1959 Guardian 9 Nov. 3/2, I have sat in a French café watching a ‘filtre’ deliver the coffee drop by drop into my cup. 1966 P. V. Price France 35 Cona coffee will cost slightly more than a filtre. |