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wine waitress

wine waitress is the female equivalent of wine waiter.

Meaning of wine waiter

Noun

wine waiter (plural wine waiters)

  1. The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar, advises guests on the choice of wines and serves them; a waiter who is also in charge of the wine cellar and other duties normally assigned to sommeliers.
    • Waiters paused in their hurrying to and fro, and stood with dishes in their hands, watching the curiously circling birds. A wine waiter, who had been serving some priceless Burgundy, went on pouring it until the wine was trickling in a little stream across the table-cloth on to the floor.1932, E. Phillips Oppenheim, “The Ghosts of Suicide Corner”, in Crooks in the Sunshine, London: Hodder & Stoughton

Forms of wine waitress

pluralwine waitresses

Questions about wine waitress

What is wine waitress the female equivalent of?
Wine waitress is the female equivalent of wine waiter.

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