maître d'

Example Sentences

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He got into it with the maître d’: “You don’t trust that my date is not going to take pictures?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

"I don't really see him as Fred Sirieix the maître d', I don't see him as anything other than my dad."

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

He knows seemingly every staff member, from the maître d’ to the waiters.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2023

Along with his wife, Evmorfili, Stelios Trilyrakis, the chef, farmer, shepherd, butcher, owner and maître d’, takes care of all that.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

The three of them trooped to the back of the restaurant where the maître d' had directed, and down a narrow flight of stairs, lit gloomily by little lamps hung in archways.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez