Definition of "maitre d'hotel" [mai•tre d'ho•tel]

• A headwaiter. (noun)
• The manager or owner of a hotel. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "[61] Francois de Paule de Clermont, Marquis de Montglat, first maitre d'hotel to the King."
• "M. M.ssard was a jeweller, a man of good sense, who, after having acquired a genteel fortune, had given his only daughter in marriage to M. de Valmalette, the son of an exchange broker, and maitre d'hotel to the king, took the wise resolution to quit business in his declining years, and to place an interval of repose and enjoyment between the hurry and the end of life."
• "It gave satisfaction, and I learned from M. de Valmalette, maitre d'hotel to the king, and son-in-law to M. M.ssard, my relation and friend, that the connoisseurs were highly satisfied with my work, and that the public had not distinguished it from that of Rameau."