What is "headwaiter"

Usage examples of "headwaiter".

It is Sonny, the headwaiter, the cheeky baboon who has been after her from the day they arrived.

GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Saginaw, where a Republican dressed as Uncle Sam will show up on 8Zfoot stilts and totter around the dim banquet hall through the whole thing and nearly crash into the network crews' riser several times and bug the hell out of everyone, and where the Twelve Monkeys will bribe or bullshit the headwaiter into seating them at a no-show table and feeding them supper while all the rest of the press corps has to stand in the back of the hall and try to help the slightly mad Economist guy cabbage breadsticks when nobody's looking.

He duked the headwaiter five pounds and got the best table in the place, with squishy red leather banquettes to sit on and real English roses to look at beneath the painted Edwardian ceiling.

Possibly she was putting on the young career woman a bit, but she did have to leave the table in the Empire Room twice, when the headwaiter came and said with a bow that CBS was on the telephone.

Looking around, as if in search of a dining companion, he merely nodded and smiled at the headwaiter, ignoring him until the Russian moved on.

The headwaiter was receiving free board and lodging in Russia at the time, and that enabled her to give Mrs.

There are some posed group portraits, too—a background scrum of groomsmen in their formal attire, much the same for weddings as for funerals and headwaiters.

The doctor made a gesture understood by headwaiters throughout history, the rope was dropped, and they were conducted in royal progress to a ringside table.

To cheer him up, she had told him that if he wished, he could perform the task of headwaiter, which seemed to delight him no end.

Milo had never seen a stock ticker before, and the quotation for Egyptian cotton happened to be coming in just as he asked the headwaiter to explain it to him.