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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

Finally, the cellarman had to consult one of the monks who was good at puzzles of this kind, and who showed him how the thing was done.

From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Dudeney, Henry Ernest

The head cellarman had gone round the place with him and his master, and Leigh at once went to him.

From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Wood, Stanley L.

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

From No Thoroughfare by Collins, Wilkie

In 1830 the firm profited by an offer made to them by a cellarman who had been for many years in the service of Madame Clicquot at Reims.

From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Vizetelly, Henry

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

From No Thoroughfare by Collins, Wilkie

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

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

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 Collins, Wilkie

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