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  • This might mean an elaborate cheese display presided over by a matre fromager to explain flavor pairings and a sommelier to assist with wines.

    Hostess with the mostess: 3 planners offer New Year's Eve party tips 2010

  • Harry passed the matre d a bunch of tens and asked for a table by the window.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • Harry passed the matre d a bunch of tens and asked for a table by the window.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • Harry passed the matre d a bunch of tens and asked for a table by the window.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • I smile, as Randy takes me by the hand and we follow the matre d to our table.

    Beneath the Bruises Dywane D. Birch 2008

  • I smile, as Randy takes me by the hand and we follow the matre d to our table.

    Beneath the Bruises Dywane D. Birch 2008

  • Duae Veneres duo amores; quarum una antiquior et sine matre, coelo nata, quam coelestem Venerem nuncupamus; altera vero junior a Jove et Dione prognata, quam vulgarem Venerem vocamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 104: Paris, 519, in the section entitled "De judicio reliquorum Judaeorum," in which the mother returns, demanding justice: "… matre dicti pueri contra ipsos de tali morte appellationem suam coram rege constanter prosequente, Deus ultionum Dominus dignam pro meritis reddidit retributionem."

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Patre et matre se singultu orbos censebant, quod meo contubernio carendum esset.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And I walked by the matre-de and he said go back out, they're still applauding.

    CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006 2006

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