ProbableNamed from the place
café liégeois
noun · first attested early 20th century
A Viennese dessert renamed for the Belgian city that slowed the German advance.
A cold dessert of coffee ice cream or chilled sweetened coffee under whipped cream, served in a glass.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- early 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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- Step 1
Liège
- In English
café liégeois
French cafés are said to have dropped the older name café viennois in 1914, when Vienna was an enemy capital and the forts of Liège had just held out longer than anyone expected. The patriotic rename is repeated everywhere but poorly documented, so treat it as likely rather than proven.
Belgium
All 12 entries 11 more words from Belgium
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