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Cotgrave, Dictionarie, says that a rostisseur is “a roster of meat; also a Cooke that sells, or dresses, none but rost-meat”; a taverne “is also (in some few places no better than) a victualling house”; and a tavernier is “a Vintner, Tauerne-keeper, Wine-drawer; also in some places a Victualler, of whom (as in our Tauernes of London) one may haue meat, and drink for his money.”
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Cotgrave, Dictionarie, says that a rostisseur is “a roster of meat; also a Cooke that sells, or dresses, none but rost-meat”; a taverne “is also (in some few places no better than) a victualling house”; and a tavernier is “a Vintner, Tauerne-keeper, Wine-drawer; also in some places a Victualler, of whom (as in our Tauernes of London) one may haue meat, and drink for his money.”
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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