maitre d'hotel

Example Sentences

• "We have a Maitre d’Hotel, or Steward — A Cook who has under him, two Scullions — Moozhiks."
• "Julius Vanice, the maitre d’hotel of the Pennsylvania, New York City, came to that position from the Detroit Statler."
• "I never got seated. 1 stood in the entrance half an hour, bypassed again and again by a maitre d’hotel who had clearly been through all this many times before. Walking to a seat, I realized, would gain me nothing. No waiter would take my order."
• "Avignon was a friend of cops who knew he would make them look good in the papers, and loved by bribable maitres d’hotel who he paid well for tips about when Cher was around with her latest lover."
• "The manager pushed his waiter aside, grabbed some menus, draped a linen napkin over his arm, and with the flair of a maitre d’hotel, escorted us to a prominent table."
• "Little wonder, then, that despite Sir Isidore’s interest in popular catering, Westminster’s cookery courses were concerned solely with haute cuisine while anyone wishing to become a waiter aimed to be a maitre d’hotel."