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cellarman

American  
[sel-er-muhn] / ˈsɛl ər mən /

noun

  • cellarmen
    plural
  1. a person who is in charge of the alcoholic-beverage supply of a hotel or restaurant.


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Etymology

Origin of cellarman

First recorded in 1650–60; cellar + -man

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His infant son was a breast-fed baby whose household at birth included a carver, a baker and a cellarman.

From Time Magazine Archive

They drank claret, decanted with zealous care and served by a black-aproned cellarman, who waited anxiously by until the Marquis had gravely sipped his first glassful and approved.

From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The cellarman stared at me as I presented a slip of paper, signed and sealed by a town-councillor:-- 'Admit the Bearer to Drink.

From The Wine-ghosts of Bremen by Wilhelm Hauff

I’ve been a cellarman my life through, with my mind fully given to the business. 

From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins

Travelling on foot to Bath, he there obtained an engagement as a cellarman, but shortly after we find him back in the metropolis again almost penniless, shoeless, and shirtless. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles

But, descrying traces of unmuddled harmony in a part-song one day, he gave his two under cellarmen faint hopes of getting on towards something in course of time. 

From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins

The two other cellarmen, the three porters, the two ’prentices, and the odd men?”

From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

The two other cellarmen, the three porters, the two ‘prentices, and the odd men?”

From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins

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