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
Sakall, a Hungarian Jewish actor, as the club’s affable headwaiter; and Peter Lorre in the small but crucial role of Ugarte, who sells exit visas to the rich and desperate.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 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
When she was finished, she beat it out of the room so fast I didn't even get a chance to invite her to join me for a drink, so I called the headwaiter over.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
