headwaitress

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headwaitress (plural headwaitresses)

  1. female equivalent of headwaiter
    • 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 3, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
      But Porterfield commented to the headwaitress, Lily, a handsome, much-loved ornament of the club, that “there’s something wrong with the old man today. Or maybe not exactly wrong, but there’s something up with him.”