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- noun Plural form of
headwaiter .
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Examples
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We recognized headwaiters and porters, pool boys and cabaret singers, whorled barnacles for fingertips.
Passeridae Wendy Wimmer 2011
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When she came in the next day, she smiled at me with the warmth formerly shown to headwaiters and doormen in her movies.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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He attended every show and made sure his headwaiters did the same, so that they could recognize even bit players and make a fuss over them.
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He has someone on his palace staff who irons the five-pound notes he puts in the Sunday collection plate — this being the only money he spends, since London headwaiters apparently know not to present him with the check.
Royal Pain 2004
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He had become used to acknowledgment by headwaiters and others that he was a Man of Importance.
The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006
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He had become used to acknowledgment by headwaiters and others that he was a Man of Importance.
The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006
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He has someone on his palace staff who irons the five-pound notes he puts in the Sunday collection plate — this being the only money he spends, since London headwaiters apparently know not to present him with the check.
Royal Pain 2004
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When she came in the next day, she smiled at me with the warmth formerly shown to headwaiters and doormen in her movies.
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And the Roy O. West Library was being dedicated in 1956, and Mrs. DiPonte -- and she became Mrs. Miller -- wanted her two best headwaiters to serve the head table, and so she selected Pat Sharpe, whom you see photographed there, and me, and there I am with the then-vice president of the United States, Richard Nixon and President Humbert of the university.
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They were skinny things underneath their headwaiters 'costumes.
Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985
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