Etymology

bartending

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Today it means: The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar. Full definition →

English tending ← Middle English barre ← Old French barre
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The story

  1. Vulgar Latin*barra
  2. Old Frenchbarre
  3. Middle Englishbarre
  4. Englishbar
  5. Englishtending
  6. English todaybartending

From bar + tending.

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