maître d'hôtel
Example Sentences
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He has even developed a compound honey-chipotle butter, which you can spoon atop the grilled beef, like a Mexican version of maître d’hôtel butter.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2020
Clockwise from bottom: moules frites; shrimp cocktail; hanger steak with maître d’hôtel butter; a green salad with haricots verts and watermelon radish.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 13, 2019
The menu was developed by the hotel’s first executive chef, Edouard Beauchamp, and the Waldorf’s maître d’hôtel Oscar Tschirky, who became known as “Oscar of the Waldorf.”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017
His father Jack was a chef and maître d’hôtel at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and his mother Fran was a waitress there — a background that helped produce Mr. Schneider’s formidable culinary skills.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2017
"Your frients haff gone up-stairs," the German maître d'hôtel said in English.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
