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‖ maître|mɛtr|
[Fr., = master.]
1. slang. Also maître d', maitre de |mɛtr də or di|. Used ellipt. for maître d'hôtel 2.
1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xviii. 188 But the viands! Some of them, as the maître is so good as to tell me..come straight from Paris. 1953P. Adler House is not Home (1954) i. 16 Hat-check girls, waiters, the maître d', some nicely-dressed people..all spoke to Harry. 1959Guardian 12 Dec. 3/1 The maître de (they do not bother about the ‘hotel’ bit) ushered..parties..to tables. 1967C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post iv. 56 A very large steak..made with great blobs of butter by a spivvy little maître with a spirit stove. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation vii. 208 The maitre d', who knew her well, greeted her and led her to her usual table on the north side. 1973M. Catto Sam Casanova iv. 74 With the help of the maître who looked after the cellar they chose a fabulous Chateau d'Yquem. 1973W. McCarthy Detail iii. 161 I've just brought over a new maître de, a young Italian fellow who will be running the place [sc. a restaurant]. 1974Publishers Weekly 17 June 10/1 The sort of lady who is instinctively escorted to corner tables by maitres d'.
2. The title and form of address of a French lawyer.
1883C. M. Yonge Stray Pearls I. xvi. 211 Technically he [sc. a lawyer] was only Maître Darpent, and his mother only would have been called Mademoiselle. Monsieur and Madame were much more jealously limited to nobility than..now. 1910Baroness Orczy Lady Molly of Scotland Yard vi. 148, I hear from Maître Vendôme that he has safely received my letter. Ibid. 165 He was met by his late aunt's lawyer, Maître Vendôme. 1957D. du Maurier Scapegoat xxiii. 305 The lawyer bowed. ‘You will have the kindness, Maître, to see that notification of the death goes to the newspapers.’ 1971Guardian 15 Sept. 2/6 Maître Nicolet then said in court that the centre of the European gang was a Frenchman.
3. a. maître d'armes |mɛtr darm| [lit. ‘master of arms’], a fencing instructor.
1896G. A. Henty Through Russian Snows vii. 143 The veterans were always ready to give him lessons with the sabre or rapier in addition to those he received from the maître d'armes of the regiment. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Mar. 220/2 He will by then be lost in a maze of technical terms..and will fly to a maître d'armes for instruction. 1956J. D. Aylward Eng. Master of Arms ix. 110 He was..abreast of the progress made during the seventeenth century by the great French maîtres d'armes. 1961F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 194 Maître d'Armes, a master of arms or fencing master.
b. maître de ballet |mɛtr də balɛ| [lit. ‘ballet-master’], originally one who composed and superintended the production and performance of a ballet; now, a trainer of ballet dancers; hence maîtresse de ballet, the female counterpart.
1823T. Creevey Let. in Creevey Papers (1903) II. iii. 64 Yesterday I spent a very amusing hour with Sefton at the Opera House, seeing the maitre de ballet manœuvre about 50 figurantes for the approaching new ballet of Alfred. 1828J. Ebers Seven Yrs. King's Theatre xii. 351 An amiable and able individual..has experienced the common fate of mortality; I mean M. Boisgerard, the second Maître de Ballet. 1845Morning Post 9 Apr. 5/5 Maîtres de ballet have to begin a new course of study. 1913A. E. Johnson Russ. Ballet 3 But though his [sc. Noverre's] ambition as a maître de ballet outran his perceptions as an artist,..he initiated and firmly established a new form of art. 1915M. E. Perugini Art of Ballet xxxiii. 278 A wise choice was made in the selection of the late Madame Katti Lanner as maîtresse de ballet. 1959Times 1 Sept. 11/3 Under its maître de ballet..it has reached international standards. 1975Times 27 May 11/5 Hu's fight master is a former Peking maître de ballet. |