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cafetier

cafetier noun: hotel employee working in a cafeterie (pantry).

Noun

cafetier (plural cafetiers)

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

Forms of cafetier

pluralcafetiers

Questions about cafetier

What does cafetier mean?
Cafetier means hotel employee working in a cafeterie (pantry).
What part of speech is cafetier?
Cafetier is a noun.
What is the plural of cafetier?
The plural of cafetier is cafetiers.

Words near cafetier in the dictionary

  1. cafeteria-style
  2. cafeterial
  3. cafeterias
  4. cafeterie
  5. cafeteries
  6. cafetier
  7. cafetiere
  8. cafetieres
  9. cafetiers
  10. cafetite
  11. cafetites

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