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Maitre d'hotel   Listen
Maitre d'hotel

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






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"Maitre d'hotel" Quotes from Famous Books



... The maitre d'hotel was a chunky man with a pleasant face, a receding hairline and, some distance back on his head, dark curly hair. He beamed at Malone as if the FBI agent were a long-lost brother. "Table for ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett

... consequently translated it, under the persuasion that it would prove an assistance to gentlemen, ladies, and others interested in such matters. He specifies three antecedent publications in France, of which his pages might be considered the essence, viz., "La Cuisine Royale," "Le Maitre d'Hotel Cuisinier," and "Les Dons de Comus"; and he expresses to some of his contemporaries, who had helped him in his researches, his obligations in the following terms:—"As every country produces many Articles peculiar to itself, and considering the Difference of Climates, which either forward ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt

... going to fill the biggest bath in this hotel with hot water, get the biggest piece of Pears' soap in London, and jump in: Then, if my tailor hasn't betrayed me, I'm going to put on dress clothes, and whilst I am dressing summon Julien (if he's maitre d'hotel here) to a conference, then I'm going to eat the best dinner that this pub can ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams



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