restaurateuse

plural restaurateuses · alternative restauranteuse

1. A female restaurateur.

   Jonathan Hazard remembered, ‘Lee takes being a restaurateuse very seriously. Do you know she won’t marry me because she might have to give it up if she did?’

   1970, David Thomson, A Bowl of Eggs, page 98

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   We were sitting in a studio, an odd mix of people who included another now good friend, Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe House in Ireland. She is a restaurateuse of great distinction, suitably garlanded by Michelin, and she had just opened an eating house in Paris.

   1988, Russell Harty, Mr Harty’s Grand Tour, Century Hutchinson, page 16

   “When I was a little teenager, I was workin’” – restaurateuse. Rancher: “Kids don’t realize.” “My kids say, ‘Don’t talk about the dark ages.’ I say to them, ‘You may be seein’ more of ’em!’” Talking, refills author’s coffee.

   1996, Madison Morrison, Realization, page 139

   It's not a spin-off, since none of the characters are the same. (the fact that the actress is the same doesn't make it a spin-off--in Cheers she played a cheery British barmaid and in C.A. she was a crusty American restaurateuse.) However, it is an example of a rip-off sitcom (using the same basic premise that has succeeded elsewhere).

   1997 June 7, J./B. Moore, “Re: Cheers & Cafe American”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), message-ID <5nce6g$81d@news.inetdirect.net>

   It was on that occasion and many more like it that I got to know a great Morelian cook and restaurateuse, Livier Ruiz, who has become a cherished friend. I have published a few of her recipes before and here is one of hers and two simple ones from the food fair.

   1998, Diana Kennedy, My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with More Than 300 Recipes, New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 42

   <> / Uh, make that Costa Rica. I've had a problem with vowels ever since I read the following in the NY Post: / >RESTAURATEUSE Hayne Jason - who / >describes her Lucky Cheng's as an Epcot / >center for fetishists - hopes Ivana Trump / >has a thick skin. The 4,000 color / >brochures which just came back from the / >printer contain several photos of celebrity / >patrons. But the caption under one / >identifies The Donald's first wife as Ivana / >Tramp.

   1999 April 17, fin...@webtv.net, “Re: STAR - 4/27 - BI - Hollywood Whodunit”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet), message-ID <2270-3718A906-49@newsd-111.bryant.webtv.net>

   Synonyms: restauratrice