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restauranteuse

restauranteuse is the alternative form of restaurateuse.

Meaning of restaurateuse

Noun

restaurateuse (plural restaurateuses)

  1. A female restaurateur.
    • Jonathan Hazard remembered, ‘Lee takes being a restaurateuse very seriously. Do you know she won’t marry me because she might have to give it up if she did?’1970, David Thomson, A Bowl of Eggs, page 98
    Synonyms:
    restauratrice

Origin of restauranteuse

Pseudo-Gallicism, formed by application of French rules to restauranteur (see French -eur, -euse), itself an English blend of restaurant and restaurateur, from French restaurateur. Note that the -euse form is more common in English than in French, where the more common feminine form of restaurateur is restauratrice.

Questions about restauranteuse

What is restauranteuse the alternative form of?
Restauranteuse is the alternative form of restaurateuse.

Words near restauranteuse in the dictionary

  1. restauranteers
  2. restauranter
  3. restauranters
  4. restauranteur
  5. restauranteurs
  6. restauranteuse
  7. restaurantgoer
  8. restaurantgoers
  9. restaurantish
  10. restaurantland
  11. restaurants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: restauranteuse (page history and authors); restaurateuse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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