restaurateur

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  1. noun The manager or owner of a restaurant.

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  • If anything, the restaurateur was downright hostile. —  Hair Raiser
  • The artifact creature fell back in the dirt. —  Time Streams
  • Barrin asked, eyebrow canted. —  Time Streams
  • How could they withstand besieging mobs? —  Dragons of Spring Dawning
  • "The home party restaurateur, yes," she said. —  Call to Treason
 

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  1. French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant.

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  1. from French restaurateur =Provencal restauraire, restaurador =Spanish Portuguese restaurador =Italian restauratore, ristoratore =D. G. restaurateur =Danish Swedish restauratör, the keeper of a restaurant, from Middle Latin restaurator, one who restores or reëstablishes: see restorator.
 

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/rɛsˈtoʊrætər/
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