Meaning of maître d'hôtel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of maître d' (“headwaiter”).
2. Alternative spelling of maître d'hôtel.
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Equivalents

Examples

“After the first course, the maître d'hôtel came in, holding a silver dish, on which were two fish, which I did not recognise.”

“She had previously appointed a maître d’hôtel and a number of domestics.”

“[Henri] Soulé had decided to keep the Pavillon open, after a fashion, by closing down the salle and serving meals only in the bar and the nouvelle salle, with the help of the non-striking members of his staff—two maîtres d’hôtel, twenty-two chefs and cooks, the cashier, the hat-check girl, and a pantryman.”

“The staff for both cuisine and office were hired and fired by the maître d'hôtel.”

“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.”

“There’s a maitre d’hotel with long pitchers just behind. Have a cigar, Tony, go on?”

“He took her for dinner to a restaurant on K Street that had dim lighting and black-leather banquettes with a maitre d’hotel who sang Puccini and Verdi arias in a liquid baritone voice.”

“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.”

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