- zenbu food (on a table; esp. a small Japanese table), dinner, cover (in a restaurant); cook, chef, person who prepares food
Archaic term for a meal or its preparer, now rare outside historical novels or restaurant names.
膳部を運ぶ給仕の姿が見えた。
Zenbu o hakobu kyūji no sugata ga mieta.
I saw a waiter carrying the meal.
彼は膳部として城に仕えていた。
Kare wa zenbu to shite shiro ni tsukaete ita.
He served in the castle as a cook.
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