maître d'
Example Sentences
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He got into it with the maître d’: “You don’t trust that my date is not going to take pictures?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025
"I don't really see him as Fred Sirieix the maître d', I don't see him as anything other than my dad."
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
He knows seemingly every staff member, from the maître d’ to the waiters.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2023
He described his proposal — which he had plotted out a week earlier with the maître d’ at the hotel’s restaurant, Paris Café — as “an expression of love through design.”
From New York Times • May 13, 2022
With a flourish, the maître d’ held back an armful of foliage so that Penelope could enter the leafy, secluded room.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
