headwaiter
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
