Definition of "marmiton" []

• A chef's assistant, kitchen boy. (noun)

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• "A couple of suggestions: If you like to cook using French recipes, go to the website www. marmiton.org -- people can post ratings and suggestions to every recipe."
• "A friend of mine gained a considerable wager upon an experiment of this kind: the petit maitre ate of fourteen different plats, besides the dessert; then disparaged the cook, declaring he was no better than a marmiton, or turnspit."
• "'How shall we have them?' said I, cook and convive, to Loolowcan, marmiton and convive."