restauratrice

plural restauratrices

1. A female restaurateur.

   The appellant, Helen Chavez, is a restauratrice in Tampa[…]

   1990, West’s Southern Reporter, page 1214, column 2

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   Gerda Simonson, a Swedish restauratrice with many years of experience in New York, has compiled three hundred choice recipes for snacks and tidbits.

   1935, The American-Scandinavian Review, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, page 378, column 1

   A restauratrice seated on a Socony can. She has a tray with bananas, bread and a tin pot of bean-paste soup.

   1936, Henry Albert Phillips, White Elephants in the Caribbean: Magic Journey Through All the West Indies, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 85

   Away from his occupational Hell, nothing is happier than Kyffin dancing a gangling Welsh reel, or being proposed to by a vast Alsatian restauratrice in Soho.

   1955, Dock Leaves, page 42

   A restauratrice who fired the dishwasher and let her dog clean the plates by licking them should be given a five-month suspended sentence.

   1959, Partners: The Magazine of Labor and Management, page 64

   Well, there you have a glimpse of Eleanor Patricia Murphy Kiernan, restauratrice and business woman, horticulturist, horsewoman, aviatrix, hostess and world traveller as the world sees her.

   1961, Patricia Murphy, Glow of Candlelight: The Story of Patricia Murphy, Prentice-Hall, page 8

   Synonyms: restaurateuse