arbiter
n.— «When I insist to the restaurant part-time waitresses, or “arbiters,” a Korean term borrowed from German, that I want nothing less than the very hottest variety of tak-galbi, they give me a look of disbelief.» —“Red Hot Chilies Odyssey” by Prabhat K. Mukherjee Korea Times (Seoul, South Korea) Aug. 15, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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