flat white

noun

plural flat whites

: espresso coffee topped with a thin layer of steamed milk

A flat white is a type of coffee created in Australia without all the foam contained in a cappuccino.

—Duane Radford

The better flat whites will have a glass-like gloss on the surface …

—Adam Craig

Examples of flat white in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Like the living room, the bedroom is painted the same flat white but the quality of the eastern light filtering into the bedroom casts a buttery glow. — Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Grab a matcha Mont Blanc or Single O flat white to-go with your takeaway pastry, or settle into a booth seat with a good book. — Riley Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026

Little touches are on point and straddle generational divides—like being offered a broadsheet at breakfast, Vienna-style, but then being served a Melbourne-standard flat white. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2026

Start your morning at NOC Coffee, where hip Hong Kongers line up for flat whites and avocado toast. — Alex Catarinella, Forbes.com, 16 Feb. 2026

The Deco’ leather 530 SL comes in two styles — White and Sienna — and comes packaged with flat white cotton laces, brown leather laces and two-tone rope laces. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for flat white

• affright
• airtight
• albite
• alight
• alright
• aplite
• aright
• bainite
• birthright
• bobwhite
• bornite
• bullfight