sommelier
IPA: sˈʌmɫiɝ
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
- (rare) To act as a sommelier.
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Examples of "sommelier" in Sentences
- That's the definition of sommelier.
- For the budding connoisseurs and sommeliers.
- In addition, she qualified as a sommelier in 1998.
- He is armed with a corkscrew sword and a sommelier knife.
- I work as a sommelier in a restaurant of Marseille, France.
- The Hog filled in the other hands before he called the sommelier:
- The experienced sommelier opens the bottle with small loss of champagne.
- Now a sommelier is trying to break food-wine pairing down to a molecular level.
- But if I did, I would be sure to throw in the word sommelier, because it does sound impressive.
- The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden," which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.