maître d'hotel

See also: maître d'hôtel and maitre d'hotel

English

Noun

maître d'hotel (plural maîtres d'hotel)

1. Alternative spelling of maître d'hôtel.
   • 1965, Judith Banister, “Before the Restoration”, in Old English Silver, London: Evans Brothers Limited, →OCLC, page 52:

     Two maîtres d’hotel would be needed, and one of their duties would be to set out ‘the silver salt cellars for the high table, the four great gilded goblets, the four dozen hanaps, the four dozen silver spoons, the ewers and alms mugs and sweetmeat dishes . . .’

   • 1972, Edward Rodwell, “[The Coast and Beyond] Pioneers of the Tourist Trade”, in Coast Causerie: Stories of the Coast and Beyond, Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books (East Africa) Ltd, →OCLC, pages 2–3:

     Perhaps Percy Petley had what some of our suave cosmopolitan hoteliers lack; a grating voice and rat-trap delivery. But he had more than that to distinguish him. There are not many maîtres d’hotel who have been knelt on by an elephant and who have throttled a leopard with their bare hands.

   • 1996, Philippe Burrin, translated by Janet Lloyd, “Rogues and menials”, in France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, part II (Accommodations), page 285:

     Several thousand came from the free zone: in the spring of 1941, Vichy authorized German commissions to recruit amongst the foreign internees. Professionally speaking, these were mostly unskilled manual workers: half were metal workers, over a quarter building labourers, the rest miners and agricultural labourers. However, the convoy of 25 March 1941, for example, also included two maîtres d’hotel, one typographer, seven cooks, three hairdressers, and two engineers.

   • 2003, David Caute, “Broadway Dead, Says Soviet Critic”, in The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, part II (Stage and Screen Wars: Russia and America), page 66:

     Pyotr’s 19-year-old son Tema, a member of the Komsomol, enjoys access to a chauffeured car and a dacha, as well as an entrée to the maîtres d’hotel of the best restaurants—but finally rebels against his corrupt father.

   • 2016, Robert Paul Liberman, “[Behavior Therapy for Aggressive Persons with Mental Disorders] Positive Behavior Support Combined with Social Skills Training”, in Robert Paul Liberman, Gary W. LaVigna, editors, New Directions in the Treatment of Aggressive Behavior for Persons with Mental and Developmental Disabilities (Psychiatry - Theory, Applications and Treatments), [Hauppauge], N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, Case Example, page 661:

     He participated in ten sessions of social skills training that focused on his greeting patients as they came into the dining room, not unlike a maître d’hotel.