Restaurateuse

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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?’"

Example

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"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?’"

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurateuse or formed in English by application of French rules (see French -eur, -euse), as it is more common in English than in French, where the more common feminine form of restaurateur is restauratrice.

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