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

They had a son who was studying to be a headwaiter.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway