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bell captains
n. (bell captain English)
Usage examples of "bell captains".
He had spent the summer between his junior and senior years in six different Foster Hotels, filling in for vacationing bell captains.
And it was a position of prestige within the hierarchy, especially within Foster Hotels Corporation, where the Old Man devoutly believed that bell captains made more of an impression on guests than any other individual on the staff, impressions that would either draw them back again or send them to Hilton or Sheraton.
The Nordic Princess was served by a crew of three hundred, mostly Dominicans and Haitians, with a few obligatory white Englishmen to serve as bell captains and maitre d's.