café au lait vs putty

café au lait

noun
  • A mixture of coffee and hot milk. 

  • A light coffee colour. 

  • Coffee and hot milk served in separate jugs as a breakfast drink. 

putty

adj
  • pretty; purdy 

  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty. 

noun
  • A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers. 

  • A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha. 

  • A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass. 

  • An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc. 

verb
  • To fix or fill using putty. 

How often have the words café au lait and putty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )