Coffeehouse
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A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffeeand other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. Itmight indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a mostimportant political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the chieforgans through which the public opinion of the metropolis venteditself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to hiscoffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse hadone or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened withadmiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own timehave been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.
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Often found in large cities such as Boston and New York. Mostly college students who are into something such as, Art, Music, Writing, Literature, etc. Found riding bikes around the city, drinking coffee from a local coffeshop. Listen to bands that sound like Nevershoutnever! and other acoustic type bands. Like to wear vnecks, skinny straight jeans, vans, peacoats, and shop at places like Urban Outfitters and American Apparrel.
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A cafe or other establishment that serves coffee and other refreshments.
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