restauranty
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From restaurant + -y.
Adjective
[edit]restauranty (comparative more restauranty, superlative most restauranty)
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a restaurant.
- 1992, David Kemp, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain, page 249:
- Tables in the courtyard and a nice restaurant. Even the pub part has a restauranty feel. I really like it.
- 2014, Daisy Jones, Star Fish, page 246:
- I'm generally uninspired on self-catering holidays – I like the security of my own kitchen – but I could happily take a lump of mackerel along to wow my friends with a restauranty pâté […]
- 2023 June 4, Jay Rayner, “Parakeet, London”, in The Guardian:
- Meanwhile the food at the Parakeet is really quite, well, restauranty. Which isn’t an adjective, but should be.