maître d'hôtel

[ mey-ter doh-tel, mey-truh; French me-truh doh-tel ]

/ ˌmeɪ tər doʊˈtɛl, ˌmeɪ trə; French ˌmɛ trə doʊˈtɛl /

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noun, plural maî·tres d'hô·tel

[mey-terz doh-tel, mey-truhz; French me-truh doh-tel]. /ˌmeɪ tərz doʊˈtɛl, ˌmeɪ trəz; French ˌmɛ trə doʊˈtɛl/.

a headwaiter.

a steward or butler.

the owner or manager of a hotel.

Cooking. a sauce of melted butter, minced parsley, and lemon juice or vinegar.

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Also called maître d' (for defs. 1-3) .

Origin of maître d'hôtel

First recorded in 1530–40; from French: “master of (the) house”

Words nearby maître d'hôtel

Maistre, mai tai, Maitland, maître d', maître de ballet, maître d'hôtel, maître d'hôtel butter, Maitreya, maîtrise, maize, Maj.

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Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.
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Scalise has called the talk, which he delivered in a hotel outside New Orleans, “a mistake I regret.”
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The added charge for access to hotel Wi-Fi is not only exploitative but increasingly irrelevant.
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“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
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“This house must have been the hotel of some distinguished family, Baron; it is nobly proportioned,” said David Arden.
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There he gave orders for the car to be put into running condition for the following morning, and returned to the hotel.
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C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.
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Outside the hotel he came upon the two sisters sitting on a bench and drinking coffee.
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I turned round, thrust my purse into the lap of the nearest, and with a light heart led the lady back to the hotel.
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British Dictionary definitions for maître d'hôtel

maître d'hôtel

/ (ˌmɛtrə dəʊˈtɛl, French mɛtrə dotɛl) /

noun plural maîtres d'hôtel

a head waiter or steward

the manager or owner of a hotel

Word Origin for maître d'hôtel

C16: from French: master of (the) hotel

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