cafetier

English

Noun

cafetier (plural cafetiers)

(dated) Hotel employee working in a cafeterie (pantry).
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 11, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
  It needs more brains than one might think. Mario said, no doubt truly, that it took a year to make a reliable cafetier.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.fə.tje/, /kaf.tje/
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Noun

cafetier m (plural cafetiers, feminine cafetière)

the owner of a café; a coffeeman

Further reading

“cafetier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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