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headwaiter

[hed-wey-ter] / ˈhɛdˈweɪ tər /
NOUN
maître d'hôtel
Synonyms
STRONGEST




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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

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

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

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




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