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The proprietor of a restaurant
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restaurateur
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also patron of cooks, cutlers, glaziers, restaurateurs, and Sri Lanka. ▪ His office was in his home, and day or night restaurateurs or grocers might call to report a refrigeration emergency. ▪ I have a foot in both camps, as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, from French restaurateur , agent noun from restaurer "to restore" (see restaurant ) on model of Late Latin restaurator "restorer." Native form restauranter is recorded from 1877.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the proprietor of a restaurant [syn: restauranter ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restaurateur \Re`stau`ra`teur"\ (r?`st?`r?`t?r"), n. [F.] The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The owner of a restaurant.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of the ...
Usage examples of restaurateur.
It was soon reported that upon all occasions of the kind, the smile of Bon-Bon was wont to differ widely from the downright grin with which that restaurateur would laugh at his own jokes, or welcome an acquaintance.
Yet in the indulgence of a propensity so truly classical, it is not to be supposed that the restaurateur would lose sight of that intuitive discrimination which was wont to characterize, at one and the same time, his essais and his omelettes.
I am willing to allow much in the outward man of the restaurateur calculated to impress the imagination of the quadruped.
The daughter as well of famed restaurateur Jimmy Landi, Heather had died early last winter, killed when her car plunged down an embankment as she was driving home from a weekend of skiing in Vermont.
Chicago restaurateur who was something of a celebrity in his own right.
According to these sources, Wyatt conceived the idea of kidnapping Daniel Donovan after Bartlett showed him a recent newspaper article including a picture of Daniel and his mother, restaurateur Kate Donovan.
He had descended from restaurateur to the stars to a homeless existence on the streets.
Muriel Verloren could not say where her husband, Robert Verloren, a former Malibu restaurateur, is now located.
I have no doubt you know the best restaurateur, and afterwards you will get us a cab to go home in.
The restaurateur he favoured with his company was Veri, whose establishment was situated on the terrace of the Feuillans with an entrance into the garden of the Tuileries.
There was a grain of truth, and even more than a grain, in what the restaurateur had said.
He went across to the platform and our fat restaurateur Schultze, and shortly afterward returned with a bulky parcel, which he duly handed over.
Despite enormous resistance when it was first proposed, Euro Disney has become the number one tourist attraction in France, and the largest restaurateur in that country of high cuisine, selling 30 million meals a year.
There was even a picture of the happy restaurateurs beside an enormous cartoon cowboy with lariat.
At this time the Regent Grill was enjoying one of those bursts of popularity for which restaurateurs pray to whatever strange gods they worship.