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maitre d'hotel

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maî·tre d'hô·tel  (mtr d-tl )
n. pl. maî·tres d'hô·tel (mtr d-tl)
1. A headwaiter.
2. A major-domo.
3. A sauce of melted butter, chopped parsley, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
[French maître d'hôtel : maître, master + de, of + hôtel, house.]
maitre d'hotel [met-ra dote-tell]
Noun
pl maitres d'hotel a head waiter [French]
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Noun1.maitre d'hotelmaitre d'hotel - a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
headwaiter, maitre d', captain
dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant - someone employed to provide service in a dining room
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The maitre d'hotel and several waiters came hurrying up towards the prostrate figure, by the side of which Major Thomson was already kneeling.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
As a clever maitre d'hotel serves up as a specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pavlovna served up to her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbe, as peculiarly choice morsels.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
In the morning I sent for the maitre d'hotel, and explained to him that, in future, my bill was to be rendered to me personally.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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