headwaiter
Americannoun
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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
Sakall, a Hungarian Jewish actor, as the club’s affable headwaiter; and Peter Lorre in the small but crucial role of Ugarte, who sells exit visas to the rich and desperate.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022
James Oliver Gibson was born in Atlanta on April 1, 1934, to a hotel headwaiter and a homemaker.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022
The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999
He looked about for the headwaiter and saw none, so he lumbered through the few old men scattered about at tables in the gloom and seated himself at a small table directly beneath the stage.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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