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Commissionaire

//kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc.
  2. 2
    a uniformed doorman wordnet
  3. 3
    A uniformed doorman. British

    "When the day came Nick turned up early at the bank and waited under a palm tree in the atrium. People hurried in, nodding to the commissionaire, who still wore a tailcoat and a top hat."

  4. 4
    An undisclosed agent under European civil law.

Etymology

Borrowed from French commissionaire, from Latin commissio. Doublet of commissioner.

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