# restauratrice
## English
### Etymology

From French restauratrice, female form of restaurateur.

### Noun

restauratrice (plural restauratrices)
* A female restaurateur.
** 1935, The American-Scandinavian Review, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, page 378, column 1:Gerda Simonson, a Swedish restauratrice with many years of experience in New York, has compiled three hundred choice recipes for snacks and tidbits.
** 1936, Henry Albert Phillips, White Elephants in the Caribbean: Magic Journey Through All the West Indies, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 85:A restauratrice seated on a Socony can. She has a tray with bananas, bread and a tin pot of bean-paste soup.
** 1955, Dock Leaves, page 42:Away from his occupational Hell, nothing is happier than Kyffin dancing a gangling Welsh reel, or being proposed to by a vast Alsatian restauratrice in Soho.
** 1959, Partners: The Magazine of Labor and Management, page 64:A restauratrice who fired the dishwasher and let her dog clean the plates by licking them should be given a five-month suspended sentence.
** 1961, Patricia Murphy, Glow of Candlelight: The Story of Patricia Murphy, Prentice-Hall, page 8:Well, there you have a glimpse of Eleanor Patricia Murphy Kiernan, restauratrice and business woman, horticulturist, horsewoman, aviatrix, hostess and world traveller as the world sees her.
** 1990, West’s Southern Reporter, page 1214, column 2:The appellant, Helen Chavez, is a restauratrice in Tampa […]
** 1976, William Fifield, Modigliani, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 148:Rosalie, for example, the restauratrice in the Rue Campagne-Première, in whose hole-in-the-wall everyone ate—Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne, Vlaminck, even, it is said, Picasso—called him Amedeo.
** 1992, Jeanne Harman, Harry E. Harman, III, Georgia at Its Best, Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, page 216:As if the Nygren/Dailey saga didn’t already sound too eventful to be true, Steve Nygren added the final romantic touch by choosing as his bride the daughter of one of Atlanta’s most famous regional restauratrices, Margaret Kennon Lupo, of Mary Mac’s.
** 1992, The Durham University Journal, page 272:Sturdily English working-class, she was free of those strange bonds, of continental provenance, in part traditionally filial, in part traditionally economic, that fettered Adelaide to her mother, Madame Foltinowicz, as her literary descendant Annette was fettered to that other redoubtable Soho restauratrice, Madame Lamotte.
** 1997, David Bret, Maria Callas: The Tigress and the Lamb, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 244:A similar outfit had been commissioned by Gloria Magnus, the Capri-based Cockney socialite and restauratrice whom Maria had met during one her trips to see Gracie Fields – a notorious man-eater whom one journalist had described as ‘coming free with every course’, and at least one Italian newspaper drew comparisons between the two.
** 1999, Alice Waters, “Introduction”, in Richard Olney, editor, Reflexions, New York, N.Y.: Brick Tower Press, →ISBN, pages 9–10:My proudest moment as a seasoned restauratrice took place one afternoon at Chez Panisse several years ago, when Richard rose to speak to a group of French winemakers he was accompanying on a tour of California wineries.
** 2007, Miranda Purves, “Alice Give Thanks”, in Elle, page 305, column 1:Though in fact I’m on my way to a harvest lunch hosted by legendary restauratrice Alice Waters in honor of Cannard, who for 21 years has supplied the majority of produce for Chez Panisse, in spirit I find myself within scrabbling distance of my childhood, and suddenly I am sobbing so hard I have to pull over.

#### Synonyms

* restaurateuse

## French
### Etymology

From restaurer +‎ -atrice.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa.tʁis/
* Rhymes: -is
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

restauratrice f (plural restauratrices)
* female equivalent of restaurateur

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /re.staw.raˈtri.t͡ʃe/
* Rhymes: -itʃe
* Hyphenation: re‧stau‧ra‧trì‧ce

### Noun

restauratrice f (plural restauratrici)
* female equivalent of restauratore