kissaten
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶店 (kissaten, literally “tea-drinking shop”).
Noun
kissaten (usually uncountable, plural kissatens)
- A type of Japanese coffee shop, developed in the early 20th century.
- 2003 December 21, Ernest Schaal, “Protestor Damages Enola Gay”, in alt.native (Usenet):
- We went Christmas shopping around the eki, saw all the Christmas decorations, and had great desert in a kissaten. Everything was beautiful.
- 2022 October 25, Nina Li Coomes, “The Strange Comfort of Jet Lag”, in The New York Times Magazine:
- In Japan, my sister, mother and I would snap awake at an impolite time and ease our way downstairs into the damp morning air. Nagoya, my hometown, has a rich and extensive culture of kissatens, or coffeehouses, some of which would open as early as 7 a.m.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:kissaten.
Translations
a type of Japanese coffee shop
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
kissaten