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Cappuccino

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a coffee drink made with espresso, steamed milk, and milk foam
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cappuccino
Italian · 1900s
"relating to the Capuchin order"
named for the brown-hooded robes of Capuchin friars, resembling the drink's color
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cappuccino
English · 1940s
"espresso topped with steamed, foamed milk"
adopted directly for the espresso drink topped with foamed milk
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