Obs. A man keeping a coffee-house.
1673. [R. Leigh], Transp. Reh., 48. The coffee-men I hear will bid fair for your stationers.
1692. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), II. 429. The lord mayor has declared no coffee men in London shall receive guests on Sunday.
1764. Low Life, 102. Vintners, Coffee-men, Publicans.
