headwaiter
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Lucey’s headwaiter Don Avalier was reportedly “discovered” there, and screen-tested for a bio-pic of Rudolph Valentino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Ms. Peters’s grandfather was a headwaiter at Grossinger’s, the resort in the Catskills that catered to Jewish patrons, and arranged for her to audition before the tenor Jan Peerce, who sometimes sang there.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017
“You’re very hip again,” Ms. Regan told the headwaiter.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
He looked about for the headwaiter and saw none, so he lumbered through the few old men scattered about at tables in the gloom and seated himself at a small table directly beneath the stage.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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