cafeteria
ca·fe·te·ria
noun
1.
a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
Origin
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.
Phrases
- cafeteria bowling
- cafeteria Catholic
- cafeteria Catholicism
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- cafeteria plan
- cafeteria truck
- cafeteria wagon
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