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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
Noun
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However, the complaint claims neither Carnival’s cabin stewards nor the housekeepers ever took any action.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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In making Lin and Grady co-stewards, Sequoia is returning to the successful formula last employed when partners Michael Moritz and Doug Leone served as co-stewards.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Soon, a stewardess appears carrying a tray holding glasses of champagne, water, and orange juice.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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The untitled film follows best friends Tess and DeeDee, train stewardesses who trade their dreary shifts on the Stank Rail for the glitzy Glamazonian Express.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Headwaiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headwaiter. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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