The maitre d is the person in charge of seating guests. Speak to the maitre d, the maitre d found us a table.
The job is the room rather than the food, so the maitre d decides who sits where and how the evening flows. It is short for maitre d'hotel, and the apostrophe is usually dropped in English.
1nounmaitre dThe person in charge of seating guests.
“The maitre d remembered them from a year before.”
maitre d is a person.
Practised in Restaurant & Cafe