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Waiter   /wˈeɪtər/   Listen
noun
Waiter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. "The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, "Make room," as if a duke were passing by."
2.
A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.





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"Waiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... and if it had not been necessary for Ted and Tom to make a certain train in order to get back to college at the required time, while Hiram was also due at a midnight conference of geologists at his hotel, they might have gone on with the merriment long after the last waiter had disappeared and ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther
... table of contents to expand in that direction does not mean that talking comes more easily in every language. It does mean that the use of all of it yesterday made the table have only one waiter. This did not ease the ones saying the same of a plate as they do ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein
... for Kate to see how shocked and ill she had been. As she helped dress her for lunch, Kate said to Mrs. Jardine: "I met the manager as I was going to post a letter to my sister, so I asked him always to send you the same waiter. He said he would, and I'd like you to pay particular attention to her appearance, and the ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter
... time that my uncle Toby interrupted Yorick's harangue—Gastripheres's chesnuts were brought in—and as Phutatorius's fondness for 'em was uppermost in the waiter's head, he laid them directly before Phutatorius, wrapt up hot in a ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... company began to talk just as fast as they could. They were astonished at seeing the play so well acted, and laughed over and over again when they recalled the comical little gardener and waiter, who wore such funny dresses, and knew their parts so perfectly, and acted with such serious faces. Minnie came in, too, for her share of praise,—indeed, every one was excellent; and when the children made their ...
— The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens - Being the Fourth Book of the Series • Frances Elizabeth Barrow


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