Small restaurants or bars where people go to drink coffee, tea, and eat light meals while socializing.
From French 'café,' which came from Turkish 'kahve' (coffee), itself from Arabic 'qahwah.' The word traveled along the same routes as the coffee trade from the Middle East to Europe in the 1600s.
Cafes shaped entire revolutions: the Boston Tea Party organizers plotted in cafes, and 18th-century political uprisings in France were literally planned in coffeehouses—caffeine might have changed history!
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