maitre d'hotel

Noun

Meaning

a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers

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Anyone who has got any pleasure at all from living should try to put something back. Life is like a superlative meal and the world is the maître d'hôtel. What I am doing is the equivalent of leaving a reasonable tip. Gerald Durrell

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