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Headwaiter

noun
1.
A dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers.  Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel.






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"Headwaiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... there is little of the dwarf's distortion about him. He is simply a man in miniature: in aspect, much like any other man. His specialty is impersonation. First he appears as a drill sergeant, then as a headwaiter, then as a gas collector, then as some other familiar fellow. But what keen insight and penetrating humour in every detail of the picture! How mirth bubbles out! Here we have burlesque, of course, and there is even some horseplay ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright



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