[Fr. agent-n. from traiter to TREAT, to supply with food for money.] A keeper of an eating-house (in France, Italy, etc.) who supplies or sends out meals to order.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic., xxxix. A party of those young sparks, at the house of a noted traiteur. Ibid. (1763), Trav., vi. (1766), I. 86. Your taylor, barber, hatter, traiteur, and wine-merchant.
1828. [H. Best], Italy, 272. Our dinner was sent by the traiteur in a fat oblong basket.
1863. Miss Braddon, Eleanor’s Vict., iv. I have a cup of coffee and a roll brought me every morning at nine from a traiteur’s over the way.
