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

“You’re very hip again,” Ms. Regan told the headwaiter.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016

It wasn’t going to be over simply with a snap of the owners’ collective fingers, despite their apparent belief that it should be like calling for a headwaiter and the check.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2011

The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

Cecil, the headwaiter, scanned up and down the yardsticks for somewhere to seat us.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck