maître d'hotel

Example Sentences

• "Two maîtres d’hotel would be needed, and one of their duties would be to set out ‘the silver salt cellars for the high table, the four great gilded goblets, the four dozen hanaps, the four dozen silver spoons, the ewers and alms mugs and sweetmeat dishes . . .’"
• "Perhaps Percy Petley had what some of our suave cosmopolitan hoteliers lack; a grating voice and rat-trap delivery. But he had more than that to distinguish him. There are not many maîtres d’hotel who have been knelt on by an elephant and who have throttled a leopard with their bare hands."
• "Several thousand came from the free zone: in the spring of 1941, Vichy authorized German commissions to recruit amongst the foreign internees. Professionally speaking, these were mostly unskilled manual workers: half were metal workers, over a quarter building labourers, the rest miners and agricultural labourers. However, the convoy of 25 March 1941, for example, also included two maîtres d’hotel, one typographer, seven cooks, three hairdressers, and two engineers."
• "Pyotr’s 19-year-old son Tema, a member of the Komsomol, enjoys access to a chauffeured car and a dacha, as well as an entrée to the maîtres d’hotel of the best restaurants—but finally rebels against his corrupt father."
• "He participated in ten sessions of social skills training that focused on his greeting patients as they came into the dining room, not unlike a maître d’hotel."