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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



... 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 ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams

... think not. If the valet de chambre and the maitre d'hotel and the chef de service and the others of the ten men needed to supply me with fifteen cents worth of coffee, could read my heart, they would find it an abyss ...
— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock

... should think not. If the valet de chambre and the maitre d'hotel and the chef de service and the others of the ten men needed to supply me with fifteen cents worth of coffee, could read my heart, they would find it an abyss of the ...
— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock

... "Go to the maitre d'hotel, and tell him I must have salt mackerel for dinner. And go to Madame de Beaujeu, and let her know that I wish to dine alone to-day. Do you know, madame," continued the king, pretending to be slightly angry, "that you neglect me? It is almost three years since I have seen you. ...
— Maitre Cornelius • Honore de Balzac



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