| 单词 | maitre d'hotel |
| 释义 | maitre d'hotel (once / 45812 pages) n A maitre d'hotel is someone whose job involves greeting restaurant customers and supervising the wait staff. In a fancy restaurant, the maitre d'hotel is the person who shows you to your table. Not all restaurants have a maitre d'hotel (or maitre d' for short), but most formal or pricey ones do. You could also call this person the host. Maitre d'hotel originally meant "head domestic" in English — the servant in charge of a home's staff — from the French meaning, "house master." By 1890, the term came to describe the manager of a dining room or hotel. WORD FAMILYmaitre d'hotel USAGE EXAMPLESWe were not properly attired, but the maitre d'hotel found us jackets to wear. New York Times(Jul 08, 2016) The dinner was extremely choice; but the finest dish of all was a dish of oysters, which the landlord had dressed a la maitre d'hotel. Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de...(2012) They knew the waiters, knew the maître d'hôtel, and inquired after the cook. Hope, Anthony, Second String(2012) n a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers Syn|Hyper captain, headwaiter, maitre d' dining-room attendant, restaurant attendant someone employed to provide service in a dining room |
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