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headwaiter

[hed-way-ter] / ˈhɛdˈweɪ tər /
NOUN
maître d'hôtel
Synonyms
STRONGEST




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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

I later learned that Peter Simmons, our genial server and headwaiter, helped design the drink.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 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




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