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

Our driver accompanied us up the steps and inside, where he told the headwaiter: “I can’t leave these ladies here. They’ll never get a cab to take them home.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2015

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

He looked about for the headwaiter and saw none, so he lumbered through the few old men scattered about at tables in the gloom and seated himself at a small table directly beneath the stage.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole