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headwaiter

[hed-wey-ter] / ˈhɛdˈweɪ tər /
NOUN
maître d'hôtel
Synonyms
STRONGEST




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

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

Before the first course arrived, the headwaiter brought a dozen red roses and presented them to Mary Anne.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy