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maitre d'hotel

[mey-ter doh-tel, mey-truh, me-truh doh-tel] / ˌmeɪ tər doʊˈtɛl, ˌmeɪ trə, ˌmɛ trə doʊˈtɛl /
NOUN
dining room attendant
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maître d'hôtel
NOUN
headwaiter
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NOUN
butler
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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

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

—Dimitrov is the maître d’hôtel at Tower Bar and at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2016

"Your frients haff gone up-stairs," the German maître d'hôtel said in English.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway