filter coffee

English

Noun

filter coffee (uncountable)

1. Brewed coffee; made with water strained through a filter holding the coffee.
   • 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19:

     […] and ‘treat ourselves’ (we had somehow picked up our mothers’ vocabulary of post-war abstention) to a filter coffee, which we regarded as the last word in French cool.

2. (India, particularly South India) Indian filter coffee; a stronger blend made with milk, chicory and coffee percolated through a metal filter and served in a cup with a small, bowl-like saucer for cooling.

Translations

brewed coffee

• Finnish: suodatinkahvi (fi), filtterikahvi
• German: Filterkaffee (de) m
• Icelandic: uppáhellt kaffi
• Turkish: filtre kahve, süzme kahve

Indian coffee

• Finnish: intialainen kahvi