coffee klatch

coffee klatchnoun/ˈkɒfi klætʃ/

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  A social gathering for conversation while drinking coffee.

  • Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate.
  • Gossip seems to manifest itself in its purest form in the coffee-klatsch. From everyday experience a coffee-klatsch is typically a circle of acquaintances who—either in a café or at home in a living room—gather for coffee and cake and unburdened by pressing obligations, turn their attention to one thing: the discussion of the flaws and actions of their absent acquaintances and endless talk about things that do not concern them.

coffee klatchverb/ˈkɒfi klætʃ/

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  informalTo meet to gossip with friends, often over coffee.

  • The upshot of this incessant meeting and dining and coffee klatching is that women are in great demand.
  • Hotel workers were busy setting up for morning meetings and men and women in business suits sat coffee-klatching in various corners of the floor.