sommelier
A sommelier decanting wine in a restaurant
Meanings
Noun
- The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
Verb
- To act as a sommelier.
Related
Similar words
- sommeliere,
- wine server
- wine steward, wine stewardess
- wine waiter, wine waitress
Origin
- Borrowed from French sommelier ("originally, a person in charge of the beast of burden"), from [[somme + -ier. somme is from Vulgar Latin *salma, from Latin sagma ("packsaddle").
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