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
“You’re very hip again,” Ms. Regan told the headwaiter.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
It wasn’t going to be over simply with a snap of the owners’ collective fingers, despite their apparent belief that it should be like calling for a headwaiter and the check.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2011
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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