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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
barista

"bartender in a coffee shop," as a purely English word in use by 1992, from Italian, where it is said to derive ultimately from the English bar (n.2), as borrowed into Italian. The word is of generic gender and may be applied with equal accuracy to women and men (it is said that the typical barista in Italy is a man).

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barista

n. A person who serves behind the counter in a coffee shop.

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Barista

A barista (; or ; from the Italian for "bartender") is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks.

Usage examples of "barista".

Several of the cops greeted Vann as he shepherded Grace across the crowded street to a corner cafe called Barista, which was next to the entrance to the Judiciary Square Metro station.

He picked his teeth while he waited for the on-floor barista to make his coffee.

The long-suffering barista was already lifting cups and spoons onto a tray.

He drummed his fingers on the counter while he waited for the pitifully slow barista to get to grips with his technology and assemble the drink.

The barista was a round man with a black moustache and a stained apron.

The barista blinked in surprise, as he always did, but by now most of the employees of Mrs.

Looking alarmed at the discord among the identical women, the goateed barista stood close to the phone as if contemplating a call to 9-1-1.

At the espresso drive-through known as The Westside Buzz, the barista had recognized Barry.

Jimmy Doud era un barista di Boston che non era mai stato preso con le mani nel sacco, ma che aveva rapinato dozzine di banche nel New England.

They call them baristas here, he noted, not employees, and what exactly is a barista?

And what wor­ried her the most about her reaction wasn't that she was concerned for the baristas who were out of a job, or the man­ager who had become her friend.

I wanted to ask them to keep a lookout for Skeeve, but Eskina kept telling me to save it for the Barista.

In ciascuno dei locali, Travis parlò in spagnolo con il barista, a volte anche con i musicisti se ce n'erano e se erano in un momento di pausa, e qualche volta distribuì biglietti da venti dollari.