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
As GQ’s Tom Carson put it in 2007, “He’s shrewd, he’s virile, he’s merry, and the camera loves him with the devotion of a headwaiter rushing over to light a billionaire’s cigar.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Ms. Peters’s grandfather was a headwaiter at Grossinger’s, the resort in the Catskills that catered to Jewish patrons, and arranged for her to audition before the tenor Jan Peerce, who sometimes sang there.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017
The headwaiter in the lobby is called the maître d’.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
Before the first course arrived, the headwaiter brought a dozen red roses and presented them to Mary Anne.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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