Treaty Café

Treaty

1. a. The treating of a subject in speech or writing; (literary) treatment; discussion. Obs.
2. The treating of matters with a view to settlement; discussion of terms, conference, negotiations. Now rare or Obs. exc. in phr. in treaty.
3. a. A settlement or arrangement arrived at by treating or negotiation; an agreement, covenant, compact, contract. Obs. exc. as in b and in phr. private treaty: see PRIVATE a. 7f.
4. Entreaty, persuasion, request. Obs.
5. Treatment, usage; behaviour. Obs. rare.
6. attrib. and Comb., as treaty-ally, -breaker, -money, -right, skill, -stipulation; treaty-breaking, -making ns. and adjs.; treaty-bound, -sealed adjs.; treaty coast, shore, a coast on or along which some foreign nation has certain rights guaranteed by treaty; treaty Indian N. Amer. (now chiefly Canad.), an Indian whose tribe or band has signed a treaty with the Government; a ward of the Government; treaty-port, a port opened to foreign commerce by a treaty (esp. applied to certain ports in China, Japan, and Korea, in relation to commerce with European nations); Treaty stone, the stone on which the Treaty of Limerick (3 Oct. 1691) was reputedly signed (see quot. 1866).

Café

1. A coffee-house, a restaurant; strictly a French term, but in the late 19th c. introduced into the English-speaking countries for the name of a class of restaurant.