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Noun

carafe (plural carafes)

  • A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
    • ✤ Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.1
    • ✤ […] I ask if he’d like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we’ve been talking.2
  • A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used both for serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
    • ✤ Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.3

Etymology

First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”). Doublet of carboy.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA: /kəˈɹæf/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -æf

Printed 2026-07-08.

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Footnotes

  1. 1870, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Run to Earth, page 215: ↩

  2. 2026 April 4, Jonathan Derbyshire, “Lunch with the FT: Jay McInerney”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3: ↩

  3. 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 177: ↩