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

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

He had been a headwaiter and she had worked as maid in the same hotel and they had saved their money to buy this place.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway