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

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

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

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