1
: a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine
We ordered a carafe of wine with the meal.
2
: a usually glass container used to hold and serve coffee
Examples of carafe in a Sentence
We drank a carafe of wine.
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On the left is a drip coffee maker that uses your ground coffee of choice to brew a full carafe.
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Rennie Dyball, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Our Place Night + Day Carafe $125 Our Place
Leave it to the team behind the Always Pan—a multifunctional bestseller—to create a glass carafe that seemingly does it all.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
How to clean: Discard the grounds, take the plunger apart, then use warm water and gentle dish soap to clean each piece of the plunger, along with the carafe.
—Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025
The six of them sat on the platform around a very '60s-looking set-up, poured a drink out of a carafe into glasses, took a cheers and held their glasses out to the audience.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2024
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Rennie Dyball, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Our Place Night + Day Carafe $125 Our Place
Leave it to the team behind the Always Pan—a multifunctional bestseller—to create a glass carafe that seemingly does it all.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
How to clean: Discard the grounds, take the plunger apart, then use warm water and gentle dish soap to clean each piece of the plunger, along with the carafe.
—Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025
The six of them sat on the platform around a very '60s-looking set-up, poured a drink out of a carafe into glasses, took a cheers and held their glasses out to the audience.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Carafe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carafe. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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