Silex

Brand name.

Silex (plural Silexes)

1. (dated) A vacuum coffee maker.
   • 1965, Stewardsman, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 31:

     The Navy uses several types of coffee makers – urns, silexes, and percolators. Each type requires special care in making good coffee.

   • 1968, The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 143:

     Remembering my daily habits, Papa-san brewed the coffee and before I had completed a local phone call, he was serving it piping hot from the Silex, still grinning as he thought of other days of coffee-making.

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