cafe royale

cafe royale (countable and uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of café royale.
   • 1890 November 30, “What Is the Remedy?”, in The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, volume L, number 306, Memphis, Tenn., page 10, column 2:

     Come here and sit down. Have a cigar and a cafe royale.

     This article was reprinted from the 23 November 1890 issue of The New York Times, where it might have been written as café royale according to its quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary.

   • 1935 May, Frank J. Taylor, “Deep Sea Money Job”, in Alec X. McCausland, editor, The Olympian, volume XXIII, number 5, San Francisco, Calif.: The Olympic Club, page 8, column 3:

     Bill Reed, inside the tank, heaved a sigh of relief, imbibed a cafe royale, smoked a cigaret, turned on the radio, and lay down on a cot.

   • 1944 December 2, Al Hine, “G.I.’s Raise Their Eyebrows at Advertising”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 77, number 49, New York, N.Y.: The Editor & Publisher Company, page 65, column 1:

     Dawdling over a cafe royale in our fur-lined slit trench, we can depend on advertising to keep the home folks up to date on combat conditions.

     Reprinted from the 1 December 1944 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly, there entitled “Advertising Has Gone to War”.

   • 1953 April 19–25, “It’s New to Us”, in Donald C. Stuart Jr., Dan D. Coyle, editors, Town Topics, volume VIII, number 6, Princeton, N.J., page 8:

     Also from Holland, a giant copper coffee urn on a brass stand with an alcohol burner. The urn holds eight cups. In exact replica is a baby one that holds half a pint (no burner). A cafe royale set, also in copper, has a drip pot and brass tray.

   • 1963 August, Fritz Leiber, “A Hitch in Space”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy Publishing Corp., page 82, column 1:

     Poking out of her tail, ghostlier than the flame over a cafe royale, was the evil blue glow of her jet.

   • 1964, Kenneth Marlowe, “I Was a Problem”, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 25:

     I picked up one of the cups and sipped a Cafe Royale.

   • 1964 July, Robert A[nson] Heinlein, “Farnham’s Freehold”, in Worlds of If, volume 14, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, page 8, column 1:

     “You fetch me coffee. And brandy. Cafe royale.”

     Some later editions, possibly one published in 1965, and one in 2006, use café royale. A 1976 edition does not.

   • 1965 May 14, “Comedy Plays for Two Weeks”, in The Gettysburg Times, volume 63, number 114, Gettysburg, Pa., page nine:

     Dorothy Stinnette, who plays in soap operas “As the World Turns” and “Love of Life” and has had Broadway and Hollywood experience, is refreshing as the Irish maid “Kate” and Susan Lehman as La Passionell, Sarina’s one-time roommate “tells all” in a very funny scene in the third act when a apot of cafe royale is served to her at breakfast and she unbends under its “well-roasted, full-bodied flavor.”

   • 1970 January 31, Revan Komaroff, “Long Beach Chamber of Commerce: Trade Tips; On the World Market”, in Independent Press-Telegram, volume III, number 52, Long Beach, Calif., page P-2:

     So give your oversea buyer the full treatment from soup to nuts, then embellish your offer with a sort of cafe royale, or creme de la creme, by making your offers not a trite matter of figures, but translate it in terms of how to profit with joy.

   • 1999, Jacqueline S. Thursby, “ Boarding Houses and Bootlegging”, in Mother’s Table, Father’s Chair: Cultural Narratives of Basque American Women, Logan, Ut.: Utah State University Press, →ISBN, page 55:

     In the evening at Louise’s, many boarders played muz, a traditional Basque card game, and instead of money they often bet cups of cafe royale, a potent mix of coffee and Harvey’s Bristol Cream.