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

Our driver accompanied us up the steps and inside, where he told the headwaiter: “I can’t leave these ladies here. They’ll never get a cab to take them home.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2015

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

From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999

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

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck