cafeterie

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See also: caféterie, and cafétérie

English

Noun

cafeterie (plural cafeteries)

  1. (dated) Cafeteria.
    • 1907, Laura A. Taylor, Three Westerners Abroad, page 46:
      There is no "diner," so we get off the train for breakfast, and have some more cafeterie experience. A plate, knife and fork are provided, the rest you are expected to do for yourself, pay your bill and depart.
    • 1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28,
      A central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty.
    • 1911, The Philistine, a Periodical of Protest, volume 33, page 10:
      In front of a cafeterie in San Francisco I saw a donkey carrying sandwich-boards upon which was lettered the legend, “This Cafeterie employs non-union labor. Do not patronize it!”
  2. (dated) Pantry, stillroom.

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