headwaiter

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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

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

“You’re very hip again,” Ms. Regan told the headwaiter.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2016

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