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
“You’re very hip again,” Ms. Regan told the headwaiter.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
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
When she was finished, she beat it out of the room so fast I didn't even get a chance to invite her to join me for a drink, so I called the headwaiter over.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
