headwaiter
Example Sentences
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He didn’t get the starring role but he did get other movie parts, often playing … a headwaiter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
As GQ’s Tom Carson put it in 2007, “He’s shrewd, he’s virile, he’s merry, and the camera loves him with the devotion of a headwaiter rushing over to light a billionaire’s cigar.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
James Oliver Gibson was born in Atlanta on April 1, 1934, to a hotel headwaiter and a homemaker.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022
The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
He had been a headwaiter and she had worked as maid in the same hotel and they had saved their money to buy this place.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
