"cafeterie" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cafeteries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cafeterie (plural cafeteries)
  1. (dated) Cafeteria. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-cafeterie-en-noun-7CckkqBv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6
  2. (dated) Pantry, stillroom. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-cafeterie-en-noun-em4vaA6m

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzs2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22cafeterie%22&dq=%22cafeterie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkq5uJ5cHNAhVGHGMKHZDXBL44ZBDoAQiXAzBF\nA central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty."
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          "ref": "1911, The Philistine, a Periodical of Protest, volume 33, page 10:",
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