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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cellarmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cellarman

First recorded in 1650–60; cellar + -man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cellarman cellarmen

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

From Time Magazine Archive

At the servants' table, besides the waiters and other attendants on the principal board, mentioned by Harrison, sat the master-cook, the pantler, the steward or major-domo, the butler, the cellarman, the waferer, and others.

From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt

Poets and roasters, we know, are born, and not made; and the monk in question seems to have been a heaven-born cellarman, with a 13 strong head and a discriminating palate.

From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Henry Vizetelly

A rogue carried it off, and my stupid cellarman can't tell me who came to fetch wine.

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

He succeeded, however, in obtaining employment as a cellarman at the London Tavern, where it was his duty to be in the cellar from seven in the morning until eleven at night. 

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

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

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 No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins