sous-chef
sous-chef · sous-chefs
Souschef
The chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchyThe chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.
Meaning
1 sensesThe chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.
Souschef
Translations
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By meaning 1
chef underneath the head chef:
Origin
From French sous-chef. Compare Italian sotto capo, which was calqued into English as underFrom French sous-chef. Compare Italian sotto capo, which was calqued into English as underboss. Perhaps there was ultimately an unattested term *subcaput in Late Latin, with a variant *subciput.
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