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Featured Recipe Mint Julep View Recipe → For dinner after the race, served over a tablecloth: roast beef with potatoes, watercress and Henry Bain sauce, a condiment that came out of Louisville’s Pendennis Club during the 19th century and is named for the headwaiter there who developed it.
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Sam Sifton, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Or as a headwaiter. Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
Assistant headwaiter Eric Matiko makes the best cocktails, like a Highlands buttered rum with rooibos and cinnamon that staves off the chilly evenings.
—Saumya Ancheri, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2022
The headwaiter looked like a ’tacheless Salvador Dalí and drank a ball of cognac and was sustained.
—Kevin Barry, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
Sam Sifton, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Or as a headwaiter. Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
Assistant headwaiter Eric Matiko makes the best cocktails, like a Highlands buttered rum with rooibos and cinnamon that staves off the chilly evenings.
—Saumya Ancheri, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2022
The headwaiter looked like a ’tacheless Salvador Dalí and drank a ball of cognac and was sustained.
—Kevin Barry, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for headwaiter
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Smith touched on the importance of the award before the artist touched the stage, especially due to the fact that Abloh was regarded as an innovator and cultural steward.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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Assign data stewards within each business domain responsible for ongoing data quality and accessibility.—
Daniel Fallmann,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Ditte Perschke, the youngest of three sisters from a small town in Denmark, studied Service & Hotel Management in Copenhagen before swapping hotels for the elite world of luxury yachts, working as a chief stewardess catering to the demands of high-profile owners.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Viral video captured on March 5, 2023, showed Torres shouting while standing above his seat, before taking off into the plane's aisle and attacking a stewardess with a broken metal spoon.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
30 July 2025
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“Headwaiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headwaiter. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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