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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

“You’re very hip again,” Ms. Regan told the headwaiter.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2016

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




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