cafetier

cafetier (plural cafetiers)

1. (dated) Hotel employee working in a cafeterie (pantry).
   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

     It needs more brains than one might think. Mario said, no doubt truly, that it took a year to make a reliable cafetier.

From café +‎ -ier, with intrusive -t-.

• IPA^(key): /ka.fə.tje/, /kaf.tje/

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cafetier m (plural cafetiers, feminine cafetière)

1. the owner of a café; a coffeeman

• “cafetier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.