headwaitress

headwaitress

English

Noun

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.”