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Maitre d'   Listen
Maitre d'

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





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"Maitre d'" Quotes from Famous Books



... faire faire une chose Plut'ot qu'une autre: vous serez totalement libre de toutes vos pens'ees, paroles, et actions, vous ne me verrez pas un souhait un d'esir qui Puisse contredire vos pens'ees et Vos volont'es: je saurai que M. Walpole est 'a Paris, il saura que je demeure 'a St. Joseph; il sera maitre d'y arriver, d'y rester, de s'en aller, ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... flowers upon your table does not, in Egypt, necessarily imply that the donor thereof is a son of the desert; the maitre d'hotel has been known to do it out of deference to your rank or purse; and only once had Jane Coop had the mixed pleasure of meeting the deaf-mute Nubian who daily left ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest


Words linked to "Maitre d'" :   dining-room attendant, headwaiter, restaurant attendant, captain


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