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
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.”
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 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
