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
During the trial, Mr. Schettino admitted that he had committed an “imprudence” when he decided to sail near the island of Giglio at high speed to greet the family of the ship’s headwaiter.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
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
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
