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headwaiter

noun as in maître d'hôtel

Strongest match

noun as in waiter

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He didn’t get the starring role but he did get other movie parts, often playing … a headwaiter.

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Cecil, the headwaiter, scanned up and down the yardsticks for somewhere to seat us.

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As GQ’s Tom Carson put it in 2007, “He’s shrewd, he’s virile, he’s merry, and the camera loves him with the devotion of a headwaiter rushing over to light a billionaire’s cigar.”

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

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During the trial, Mr. Schettino admitted that he had committed an “imprudence” when he decided to sail near the island of Giglio at high speed to greet the family of the ship’s headwaiter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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