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Examples
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Here is the caleur, the waiter, kellner; the hers, the master, herzog (duke).
Les Miserables 2008
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The noble hall was a scene of vulgar festivity, where the ubiquitous kellner, racing to and fro with beer and plates of sausage, solved the problem of perpetual motion.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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I sent a _kellner_ to bring me the master of the café, whom I informed of my loss and my inability to pay my debt to him.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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You will find them in the rancid Tingel-Tangel, blaspheming the _kellner_ because they can't get a highball.
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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It is this Paris that celebrates the hour of the apéritif with Bronx cocktails and "stingers," that has put Chicken à la King on the menu of the Soufflet, that has enabled the _ober-kellner_ of Ledoyen to purchase
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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Hans, works as a kellner in a restaurant-automat, and we are too poor to be married now.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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Cary responded with "What you giving us?" which the Teutonic kellner couldn't understand.
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888
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He merely answered, with the fatuous patronising grin of the German _kellner_: --
Much Darker Days Andrew Lang 1878
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Here is the caleur, the waiter, kellner; the hers, the master, herzog (duke).
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By contract with the kellner at my hotel the difficulty was finally arranged.
The Land of Thor 1848
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