headwaiter
Example Sentences
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Lucey’s headwaiter Don Avalier was reportedly “discovered” there, and screen-tested for a bio-pic of Rudolph Valentino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Sakall, a Hungarian Jewish actor, as the club’s affable headwaiter; and Peter Lorre in the small but crucial role of Ugarte, who sells exit visas to the rich and desperate.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
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
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
