cafetier

English

Noun

cafetier (plural cafetiers)

1. (dated) Hotel employee working in a cafeterie (pantry).
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XI, [1]

     It needs more brains than one might think. Mario said, no doubt truly, that it took a year to make a reliable cafetier.

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

cafetier m (plural cafetiers)

1. café owner

Further reading

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