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Definition of Headwaiters
1. headwaiter [n] - See also: headwaiter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headwaiters
Literary usage of Headwaiters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Fables" of the Hotel Profession and Poems of "good Cheer" by Charles Martyn, Frank W. Doolittle (1904)
"THE TWO headwaiters. Now, there were two headwaiters, and both of them had
determined to become Wealthy. ..."
2. The American Mind by Bliss Perry (1912)
"He is genial — very willing to talk with polyglot headwaiters and chauffeurs; in
fact the wife and daughters are also practised conversationalists, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"headwaiters we have innumerable, and excellent they are, shrewd, confidential,
quick of memory, admirable gossips, even witty. ..."
4. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"... a portrait painter and very humorous cartoonist, a fellow known to all the
tony Madrid headwaiters, a very fair pianist and a splendid trombone player, ..."
5. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"If you have a lobster digestion, you don't hear the din or feel the maelstrom of
omnibuses, waiters, headwaiters and patrons swirling about you. ..."
6. The American Mind and American Idealism by Bliss Perry (1913)
"He is genial — very willing to talk with polyglot headwaiters and chauffeurs; in
fact the wife and daughters are also practised conversationalists, ..."
7. Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More by Wharton Jackson Green (1906)
"... present arrayed in evening dress, and commenting upon his dignified appearance
in that hateful garment worn chiefly by undertakers and headwaiters. ..."
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