cellarman
Noun
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Noun
cellarman (plural cellarmen)
- A person in charge of the alcoholic drinks (traditionally the wine cellar) in a tavern etc.
- 1815, William Berry, The History of the Island of Guernsey, London: Longman, Hurst, Bees, Orme and Brown, p. 298,
- The merchant and wealthy shopkeeper here differ widely from the English character:— Immersed in business from morn till night, they dine at one or two, on plain wholesome fare; abstemious to a degree, drink less wine than their cellarmen, and without relaxing from the cares of business—the want of exercise and retirement makes as little impression on their health as their purses.
- 1923, Ivan Bunin, The Village, translated by Isabel Hapgood, London: Martin Secker, Part One, Chapter XXI, pp. 118-9,
- But on a stool by the counter sat a drunken man with blue, glassy eyes and shiny purplish face, in a round grey-peaked cap topped with a button—the cellarman from the whiskey distillery of Prince Lobanoff.
- 1815, William Berry, The History of the Island of Guernsey, London: Longman, Hurst, Bees, Orme and Brown, p. 298,
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