café au lait — meaning in English

English meaning

• latte noun A coffee drink made with espresso and steamed milk, usually topped with a little foam.
• mulatto noun A historical term, now widely considered dated or offensive, for a person of mixed Black and white ancestry.

Senses

café au lait is used for these senses in English:

• latte (figurative, informal, attributive) Affluent leftism.
• mulatto (historical, now, sometimes, pejorative) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
• white coffee (uncountable) Coffee (the drink) with milk added.

Related French words