kissaten

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶店(きっさ​てん) (kissa​ten, literally tea-drinking shop).

Noun

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kissaten (usually uncountable, plural kissatens)

  1. A type of Japanese coffee shop, developed in the early 20th century.
    • 2003 December 21, Ernest Schaal, “Protestor Damages Enola Gay”, in alt.native[1] (Usenet):
      We went Christmas shopping around the eki, saw all the Christmas decorations, and had great desert [sic] in a kissaten. Everything was beautiful.
    • 2022 October 25, Nina Li Coomes, “The Strange Comfort of Jet Lag”, in The New York Times Magazine[2]:
      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.

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Romanization

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kissaten

  1. Rōmaji transcription of きっさてん