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

James Oliver Gibson was born in Atlanta on April 1, 1934, to a hotel headwaiter and a homemaker.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

I later learned that Peter Simmons, our genial server and headwaiter, helped design the drink.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2015

The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

Before the first course arrived, the headwaiter brought a dozen red roses and presented them to Mary Anne.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy